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Strongly correlated transport

The field-effect transistor underlies microprocessor technology. A version of it has been demonstrated that tunes particle transport from an incoherent regime to a strongly correlated superfluid one. See Letter p.736

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Figure 1: Quantum transport in field-effect transistors (FETs).

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Carr, L., Lusk, M. Strongly correlated transport. Nature 491, 681–682 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/491681a

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