Critical sizes for the submersion of alkali clusters into liquid helium

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Stark, Casey ^a   Kresin, Vitaly V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 77954886234     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.085401     Document Type: Article

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