Connection of edge states to bulk topological invariance in a quantum spin Hall state

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Li, Huichao ^a   Sheng, L ^a   Xing, D Y ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE STATE; GAUGE INVARIANCE; QUANTUM SPIN HALLS; SPIN OPERATORS; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES; ZEEMAN FIELDS;

TOPOLOGY;

QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

EID: 84861079740     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.196806     Document Type: Article

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