Topological quantum phase transition in synthetic non-abelian gauge potential: Gauge invariance and experimental detections

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sun, Fadi ^a,b   Yu, Xiao Lu ^a   Ye, Jinwu ^b,c   Fan, Heng ^a   Liu, Wu Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84880293471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02119     Document Type: Article

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