Boundary criticality at the Anderson transition between a metal and a quantum spin Hall insulator in two dimensions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Obuse, Hideaki ^a,d   Furusaki, Akira ^a   Ryu, Shinsei ^b   Mudry, Christopher ^c  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 51349131051     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.115301     Document Type: Article

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