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Condensed matter: The supersolid's nemesis

John Reppy has come out of retirement to question the high-profile discovery of a new kind of quantum matter.

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Reich, E. Condensed matter: The supersolid's nemesis. Nature 468, 748–750 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468748a

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