Role of shear modulus and statistics in the supersolidity of helium

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 598-601

  West, Joshua T ^a   Syshchenko, Oleksandr ^b   Beamish, John ^b   Chan, Moses H W ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; SHEAR STRAIN;

HEXAGONAL CLOSE PACKED; SHEAR MODULUS MEASUREMENTS; SUPERSOLIDITY; TORSION EXPERIMENTS; TORSIONAL OSCILLATOR;

ELASTIC MODULI;

EID: 68749119352     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1337     Document Type: Article

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