Spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry in the orbital channel for the boundary Majorana flat bands

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Yi ^a   Wang, Da ^a   Wu, Congjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER; COOPER PAIRING; DENSITY OF STATE; SINGLE COMPONENTS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES; ULTRACOLD ATOMS; ZERO ENERGIES;

PHYSICS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84883360418     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/8/085002     Document Type: Article

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