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Science 8 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5830, pp. 1435 - 1436
DOI: 10.1126/science.1143866
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Perspectives

PHYSICS:
Cracking the Supersolid

Philip Phillips and Alexander V. Balatsky

Recent experimental and theoretical work shows that frozen helium must have atomic disorder rather than perfect crystallinity for it to become a supersolid.

P. Phillips is at the Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. E-mail: dimer{at}uiuc.edu A. V. Balatsky is in the Theoretical Division and Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. E-mail: avb{at}lanl.gov

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