Phase diagram of bismuth in the extreme quantum limit

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Huan ^a   Fauqué, Benoît ^a,b   Malone, Liam ^c   Antunes, Arlei B ^c   Zhu, Zengwei ^a,d   Uher, Ctirad ^e   Behnia, Kamran ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GRENOBLE HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY   (France)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 78650113023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1039     Document Type: Article

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