Fundamental differences between quantum spin hall edge states at zigzag and armchair terminations of honeycomb and ruby nets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 14, 2013, Pages

  Cano Cortés, Laura ^a   Ortix, Carmine ^a   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^a,b  

^a Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY LENGTH; EDGE STATE; FERMI VELOCITIES; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; QUANTUM SPIN HALLS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; RUBY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84885164968     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.146801     Document Type: Article

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