Metal-Insulator Transition Revisited for Cold Atoms in Non-Abelian Gauge Potentials
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Metal-insulator transition revisited for cold atoms in non-Abelian gauge potentials.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.216401