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Nature 392, 438-439 (2 April 1998) | doi:10.1038/33017

Condensed-matter physics:  Stripes of a different stripe

A. J. Millis1

In some materials, the electronic charge density organizes itself into stripes. Stripe physics has been of intense interest to condensed-matter physicists, as an example of a non-trivial ordering phenomenon, and because of its possible connection to high-temperature superconductivity.