Soft modes in electronic stripe phases and their consequences for thermodynamics and transport

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Kirkpatrick, T R ^a   Belitz, D ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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EID: 70249109687     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.075121     Document Type: Article

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