Topological surface states protected from backscattering by chiral spin texture

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7259, 2009, Pages 1106-1109

  Roushan, Pedram ^a   Seo, Jungpil ^a   Parker, Colin V ^a   Hor, Y S ^a   Hsieh, D ^a   Qian, Dong ^a   Richardella, Anthony ^a   Hasan, M Z ^a   Cava, R J ^a   Yazdani, Ali ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; ANTIMONY; BISMUTH;

BISMUTH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULATION; MOMENTUM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY; TIN; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHIRALITY; DISPERSION; ELECTRONICS; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULATOR ELEMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORY;

EID: 69349087652     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08308     Document Type: Article

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