A time-reversal invariant topological phase at the surface of a 3D topological insulator

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Bonderson, Parsa ^a   Nayak, Chetan ^a,b   Qi, Xiao Liang ^a,c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fractional QHE (theory); fractional states (theory); quantum fluids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885112111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2013/09/P09016     Document Type: Article

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