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Superconducting metamaterial transmission lines implemented with lumped circuit elements can exhibit left-handed dispersion, where the group and phase velocity have opposite sign, in a frequency range relevant for superconducting artificial…
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We study the thermodynamic stability at low temperatures of a series of alkali metal/zinc double-cation borohydrides, including LiZn(BH$_4$)$_3$, LiZn$_2$(BH$_4$)$_5$, NaZn(BH$_4$)$_3$, NaZn$_2$(BH$_4$)$_5$, KZn(BH$_4$)$_3$, and…
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