Electron-electron interactions in decoupled graphene layers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Profumo, Rosario E V ^a   Polini, Marco ^b   Asgari, Reza ^c   Fazio, Rosario ^d   MacDonald, A H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^d ISTITUTO NANOSCIENZE CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 77957608289     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.085443     Document Type: Article

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