Novel mechanism for the incommensurate-to-incommensurate phase transition in ${NbTe}_{4}$

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27 March 1989

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 62 (13) , 1520-1523
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.62.1520

Abstract

This article describes a novel mechanism believed to be responsible for the incommensurate-incommensurate phase transition in

{NbTe}_{4}

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