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The insulator-metal transition in hydrogen

Isaac Silvera
PNAS July 20, 2010 107 (29) 12743-12744; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1007947107
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vol. 107 no. 29 12743-12744
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1007947107
PubMed: 
20643951

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published July 20, 2010.

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Author Information

  1. Isaac Silvera1
  1. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Footnotes

  • 1E-mail: silvera{at}physics.harvard.edu.
  • Author contributions: I.S. wrote the paper.

  • The author declares no conflict of interest.

  • See companion article on page 12799.

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