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Science 12 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5809, pp. 196 - 197
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137172
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PHYSICS:
Electron Nematic Phase in a Transition Metal Oxide

Eduardo Fradkin,1 Steven A. Kivelson,2 Vadim Oganesyan,3

Materials in which electrons interact strongly can exhibit unusual properties. Electrons have now been observed to assemble into a pattern like that seen in liquid crystals.

1E. Fradkin is in the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801-3080, USA.

2S. A. Kivelson is in the Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 93105, USA. E-mail: kivelson{at}stanford.edu

3V. Oganesyan is in the Department of Physics, Yale University, Post Office Box 208120, New Haven, CT 06520-8120, USA.

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