Quantum Criticality of Granular Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Matter

Alexander Altland1, Dmitry Bagrets1, Alex Kamenev2

  • 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 77, 50937 Köln, Germany.

Physical Review Letters
|October 2, 2019
PubMed

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