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A phase separation model for stripes has found good agreement with photoemission experiments and with other studies which suggest a termination of the striped phase in the slightly overdoped regime. Here the model is extended in a number of…
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The study of the high pressure phase diagram of hydrogen has continued with renewed effort for about one century as it remains a fundamental challenge for experimental and theoretical techniques. Here we employ an efficient molecular…