Half-Heusler compounds as a new class of three-dimensional topological insulators

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Xiao, Di ^a   Yao, Yugui ^b,c   Feng, Wanxiang ^b   Wen, Jun ^c   Zhu, Wenguang ^a,d   Chen, Xing Qiu ^f   Stocks, G Malcolm ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a,d,e  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HALF-HEUSLER COMPOUND; INVERSION SYMMETRY; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; QUANTUM PHENOMENA; SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES; UNI-AXIAL STRAINS;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 77956275995     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.096404     Document Type: Article

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