Neutron scattering study of the field-induced soliton lattice in CuGeO3

Ronnow1, Enderle, McMorrow

  • 1Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry Department, Riso National Laboratory, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark.

Physical Review Letters
|September 16, 2000
PubMed

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