Toward an artificial Mott insulator: Correlations in confined high-density electron liquids in SrTiO 3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Moetakef, Pouya ^a   Jackson, Clayton A ^a   Hwang, Jinwoo ^a   Balents, Leon ^b   Allen, S James ^c   Stemmer, Susanne ^a  

^a Santa Barbara   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84869029455     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.201102     Document Type: Article

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