Isolated flat bands and spin-1 conical bands in two-dimensional lattices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Green, Dmitry ^a   Santos, Luiz ^b   Chamon, Claudio ^c  

^a BlueMountain Capital Management LLC   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

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EID: 77957330225     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.075104     Document Type: Article

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