Sufficient symmetry conditions for Topological Quantum Order

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 40, 2009, Pages 16944-16949

  Nussinov, Zohar ^a   Ortiz, Gerardo ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ENERGY; ENTROPY; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70350126147     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803726105     Document Type: Article

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