High-temperature superfluidity with indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Fogler, M M ^a   Butov, L V ^a   Novoselov, K S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSITION ELEMENT;

CONDENSATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BOSON; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; FERMION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84905220500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5555     Document Type: Article

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