Collective excitations on a surface of topological insulator

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Efimkin, Dmitry K ^a   Lozovik, Yurii E ^a,b   Sokolik, Alexey A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SPECTROSCOPY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRON GAS; GRAPHENE; LIQUIDS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); PLASMONS; SPIN DENSITY WAVES; SPIN POLARIZATION;

CHARGE AND SPIN DENSITY WAVES; COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; DIRAC ELECTRONS; ELECTRON LIQUIDS; EXTERNAL POTENTIAL; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NON-MAGNETIC IMPURITIES;

TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

EID: 84857778731     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-163     Document Type: Article

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