Synchronized charge oscillations in correlated electron systems

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Shukla, Nikhil ^a   Parihar, Abhinav ^b   Freeman, Eugene ^a   Paik, Hanjong ^c   Stone, Greg ^d   Narayanan, Vijaykrishnan ^a   Wen, Haidan ^e   Cai, Zhonghou ^e   Gopalan, Venkatraman ^d   Engel Herbert, Roman ^d   Schlom, Darrell G ^c   Raychowdhury, Arijit ^b   Datta, Suman ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84901060572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04964     Document Type: Article

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