Theory of scanning tunneling spectroscopy of fullerene peapods
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C. L. Kane, E. J. Mele, A. T. Johnson, D. E. Luzzi, B. W. Smith, D. J. Hornbaker, and A. Yazdani Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396 Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396 Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801 ~Received 4 June 2002; revised manuscript received 15 October 2002; published 31 December 2002!
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