Excitonic effects in two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Jianhui ^a   Fertig, H A ^a   Murthy, Ganpathy ^b   Brey, L ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

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EID: 79551642823     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.035404     Document Type: Article

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