Energy spectrum and broken spin-surface locking in topological insulator quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Kundu, Arijit ^a   Zazunov, Alex ^a   Yeyati, Alfredo Levy ^b   Martin, Thierry ^c,d   Egger, Reinhold ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

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EID: 79961044549     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.125429     Document Type: Article

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