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Title: Directional Forces by Momentumless Excitation and Order-to-Order Transition in Peierls-Distorted Solids: The Case of GeTe

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Physical Review Letters
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Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 120 Journal Issue: 18; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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American Physical Society
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English

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Chen, Nian-Ke, Li, Xian-Bin, Bang, Junhyeok, Wang, Xue-Peng, Han, Dong, West, Damien, Zhang, Shangbai, and Sun, Hong-Bo. Directional Forces by Momentumless Excitation and Order-to-Order Transition in Peierls-Distorted Solids: The Case of GeTe. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.185701.
Chen, Nian-Ke, Li, Xian-Bin, Bang, Junhyeok, Wang, Xue-Peng, Han, Dong, West, Damien, Zhang, Shangbai, & Sun, Hong-Bo. Directional Forces by Momentumless Excitation and Order-to-Order Transition in Peierls-Distorted Solids: The Case of GeTe. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.185701
Chen, Nian-Ke, Li, Xian-Bin, Bang, Junhyeok, Wang, Xue-Peng, Han, Dong, West, Damien, Zhang, Shangbai, and Sun, Hong-Bo. Fri . "Directional Forces by Momentumless Excitation and Order-to-Order Transition in Peierls-Distorted Solids: The Case of GeTe". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.185701.
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