Room-temperature superfluidity in graphene bilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Min, Hongki ^a   Bistritzer, Rafi ^a   Su, Jung Jung ^a   MacDonald, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 51349118675     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.121401     Document Type: Article

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