Field-induced metal-insulator transition and switching phenomenon in correlated insulators

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Sugimoto, Naoyuki ^a   Onoda, Shigeki ^b   Nagaosa, Naoto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

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EID: 54449102164     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.155104     Document Type: Article

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