Single valley Dirac fermions in zero-gap HgTe quantum wells

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 418-422

  Buttner B ^a   Liu, C X ^a   Tkachov, G ^a   Novik, E G ^a   Brune C ^a   Buhmann, H ^a   Hankiewicz, E M ^a   Recher, P ^a   Trauzettel, B ^a   Zhang, S C ^b   Molenkamp, L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; ENERGY GAP; LANDFORMS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; CRITICAL THICKNESS; DIRAC FERMIONS; FILLING FACTOR; QUANTUM HALL; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 79955652521     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1914     Document Type: Article

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