Optical manipulation of edge-state transport in HgTe quantum wells in the quantum Hall regime

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Schmidt, M J ^a   Novik, E G ^b   Kindermann, M ^c   Trauzettel, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 67650032991     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.241306     Document Type: Article

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