Tunable topological Weyl semimetal from simple-cubic lattices with staggered fluxes

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Jiang, Jian Hua ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERMI ARCS; GAUGE FIELDS; INSERTION PROCESS; INTERMEDIATE PHASE; OPTICAL LATTICES; SIMPLE-CUBIC LATTICES; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; ULTRACOLD FERMIONS;

PHASE DIAGRAMS; QUANTUM THEORY;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84859150790     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.033640     Document Type: Article

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