Anomalous Aharonov-Bohm conductance oscillations from topological insulator surface states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Yi ^a,b   Vishwanath, Ashvin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERRY PHASE; CONDUCTANCE OSCILLATIONS; INSULATOR SURFACES; NANORIBBONS; NATURE OF SURFACE; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; SURFACE CURVATURES; SURFACE DISORDER; SURFACE STATE;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TOPOLOGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS;

EID: 78349292304     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.206601     Document Type: Article

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