Chromium at high pressures: Weak coupling and strong fluctuations in an itinerant antiferromagnet
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R. Jaramillo,1 Yejun Feng,1,2 J. C. Lang,2 Z. Islam,2 G. Srajer,2 H. M. Rønnow,3 P. B. Littlewood,4 and T. F. Rosenbaum1,* 1The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 2The Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA 3Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 4Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom Received 26 February 2008; revised manuscript received 11 April 2008; published 15 May 2008
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