A sudden collapse in the transport lifetime acros. The topological phase transition in (Bi 1-x in x ) 2 Se 3

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 410-414

  Wu, Liang ^a   Brahlek, M ^b   Aguilar, R Valdés ^a   Stier, A V ^a   Morris, C M ^a   Lubashevsky, Y ^a   Bilbro, L S ^a   Bansal, N ^b   Oh, S ^b   Armitage, N P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SURFACE STATES; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; TOPOLOGY;

CORRELATION LENGTHS; FINITE SIZE EFFECT; MID INFRARED ABSORPTIONS; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; STATES OF MATTER; TIME-DOMAIN TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84880570592     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2647     Document Type: Article

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