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Researchers find unexpected roadblock to conductivity in Mott insulators - EurekAlert


Scientists from Brown University working with an international team of researchers have developed a novel theory, which they verified through a series of laboratory experiments, to fundamentally explain for the first time why one type of Mott insulator stubbornly resists conducting electricity even when electrons are added.

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