Confirmation of McMillan's Concept of "Discommensurations"
- 21 July 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 45 (3), 194-197
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.45.194
Abstract
NMR is used to study a proposal made by McMillan regarding the charge-density wave (CDW) in -Ta. The dependence of the NMR line shape is compared with predictions based on McMillan's theory. McMillan's hypothesis of "discommensurations" is confirmed—that the so-called incommensurate CDW is best described by commensurate regions separated by regions of phase slip.
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