Erratum: Observation of a topological crystalline insulator phase and topological phase transition in Pb 1 - x Sn x Te (Nature Communications (2012) 3:1192 DOI:10.1038/ncomms2191);Observation of a topological crystalline insulator phase and topological phase transition in Pb 1-x Sn x Te

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Xu, Su Yang ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Alidoust, N ^a   Neupane, M ^a   Qian, D ^a,b   Belopolski, I ^a   Denlinger, J D ^c   Wang, Y J ^d   Lin, H ^d   Wray, L A ^a,c   Landolt, G ^e,f   Slomski, B ^e,f   Dil, J H ^e,f   Marcinkova, A ^g   Morosan, E ^g   Gibson, Q ^a   Sankar, R ^h   Chou, F C ^h   Cava, R J ^a   Bansil, A ^d   Hasan, M Z ^a   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; LEAD; TELLURIDE; TELLURIUM; TIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MATERIALS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOPOLOGICAL CRYSTALLINE INSULATOR;

EID: 84870856778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12505     Document Type: Erratum

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