Charge order from orbital-dependent coupling evidenced by NbSe2

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Flicker, Felix ^a   Van Wezel, Jasper ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIOBIUM; NIOBIUM DISELENIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRON; MOMENTUM; NIOBIUM; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON; MATERIALS; MODEL; PHONON; SUPERCONDUCTOR; THEORY;

EID: 84929190922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8034     Document Type: Article

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