Topological delocalization of two-dimensional massless dirac fermions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Nomura, Kentaro ^a   Koshino, Mikito ^b   Ryu, Shinsei ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HAMILTONIANS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BETA FUNCTIONS; DIRAC HAMILTONIANS; MASSLESS DIRAC FERMIONS;

FERMIONS;

EID: 35148851472     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.146806     Document Type: Article

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