Nonlocal transport in the quantum spin hall state

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5938, 2009, Pages 294-297

  Roth, Andreas ^a   Brüne, Christoph ^a   Buhmann, Hartmut ^a   Molenkamp, Laurens W ^a   Maciejko, Joseph ^b,c   Qi, Xiao Liang ^b,c   Zhang, Shou Cheng ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; MERCURY TELLURIDE; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); QUANTUM MECHANICS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONDUCTANCE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM SPIN HALL EFFECT; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 67650986307     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1174736     Document Type: Article

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14. We thank T. Beringer, N. Eikenberg, M. Konig, and S. Wiedmann for assistance in some of the experiments. Supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant SFB 410; German-Israeli Foundation grant 1-881-138.7/ 2005; NSF grant DMR-0342832; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under contract DE-AC03- 76SF00515; the Focus Center Research Program (FCRP) Center on Functional Engineered Nanoarchitectonics; the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada; and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship Program. Computational work was made possible by the facilities of the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (www.sharcnet.ca).