Creating, moving and merging Dirac points with a Fermi gas in a tunable honeycomb lattice

Nature

Volumn 483, Issue 7389, 2012, Pages 302-305

  Tarruell, Leticia ^a   Greif, Daniel ^a   Uehlinger, Thomas ^a   Jotzu, Gregor ^a   Esslinger, Tilman ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; CONDENSATION; ELECTRON; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESTRUCTION; DIRAC POINT; ELECTRON; FERMION; GAS; GEOMETRY; HONEYCOMB LATTICE; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84858187821     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10871     Document Type: Article

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