Phase fluctuations and the absence of topological defects in a photo-excited charge-ordered nickelate

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lee, W S ^a   Chuang, Y D ^b   Moore, R G ^a   Zhu, Y ^b   Patthey, L ^a,c   Trigo, M ^a   Lu, D H ^d   Kirchmann, P S ^a   Krupin, O ^a,e   Yi, M ^a   Langner, M ^b   Huse, N ^b,f   Robinson, J S ^b   Chen, Y ^a   Zhou, S Y ^b   Coslovich, G ^b   Huber, B ^b   Reis, D A ^a   Kaindl, R A ^b   Schoenlein, R W ^b   Doering, D ^b   Denes, P ^b   Schlotter, W F ^a   Turner, J J ^a   Johnson, S L ^c   Forst M ^f   Sasagawa, T ^g   Kung, Y F ^a   Sorini, A P ^a   Kemper, A F ^a   Moritz, B ^a   Devereaux, T P ^a   Lee, D H ^h   Shen, Z X ^a   Hussain, Z ^b   more..

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^g TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; NICKELATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHARGE ORDER; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; LIGHT; MEASUREMENT; PARAMETERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84867346984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1837     Document Type: Article

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