Transport in inhomogeneous quantum critical fluids and in the Dirac fluid in graphene

Physical Review B

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Lucas, Andrew ^a   Crossno, Jesse ^a   Fong, Kin Chung ^b   Kim, Philip ^a   Sachdev, Subir ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

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EID: 84958818256     PISSN: 24699950     EISSN: 24699969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.075426     Document Type: Article

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