Evidence for short-range-ordered charge stripes far above the charge-ordering transition in La1.67Sr0.33NiO4

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Abeykoon, A M Milinda ^a   Božin, Emil S ^a   Yin, Wei Guo ^a   Gu, Genda ^a   Hill, John P ^a   Tranquada, John M ^a   Billinge, Simon J L ^a,b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE ORDERING; CHARGE STRIPES; CHARGE-ORDERING TRANSITIONS; COULOMB ENERGY; LATTICE-PARAMETER RATIO; MEAN-SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; STRUCTURAL EFFECT; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION;

OPTICAL CONDUCTIVITY;

LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84884230453     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.096404     Document Type: Article

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