Generalized Liquid Crystals: Giant Fluctuations and the Vestigial Chiral Order of I, O, and T Matter
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Ke Liu (刘科 子竞), Jaakko Nissinen, Robert-Jan Slager, Kai Wu, and Jan Zaanen Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Leiden, PO Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (Received 26 February 2016; revised manuscript received 5 June 2016; published 31 October 2016)
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تاریخ انتشار 2016