Using disorder to detect locally ordered electron nematics via hysteresis

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Carlson, E W ^a   Dahmen, K A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; IRON; BISMUTH; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; ELECTRON NEMATIC; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYSTERESIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; PHASE TRANSITION; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

BISMUTH; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; GRAPHITE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHASE TRANSITION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79960088756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1375     Document Type: Article

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