Breakdown of Hooke’s law of elasticity at the Mott critical endpoint in an organic conductor

• DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601646
• Publication Date: 2016-12-08T03:20:16Z
• Authors: Elena Gati; Markus Garst; Rudra S. Manna; Ulrich Tutsch; Bernd Wolf; Lorenz Bartosch; Harald Schubert; Takahiko Sasaki; John A. Schlueter; Michael Lang
• Keywords: Hooke's law; Elasticity

The coupling of the critical electronic system to a compressible lattice is found drastically alter Mott criticality.