Atomically resolved spectroscopic study of Sr2 IrO 4: Experiment and theory

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Qing ^a,h   Cao, Guixin ^a,b   Okamoto, Satoshi ^a   Yi, Jieyu ^a,b   Lin, Wenzhi ^a   Sales, Brian C ^a   Yan, Jiaqiang ^a,b   Arita, Ryotaro ^c,d   Kuneš, Jan ^e   Kozhevnikov, Anton V ^f   Eguiluz, Adolfo G ^g   Imada, Masatoshi ^c,d   Gai, Zheng ^a   Pan, Minghu ^a   Mandrus, David G ^a,b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^h SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84886992429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03073     Document Type: Article

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