Impurity scattering in Weyl semimetals and their stability classification

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Huang, Zhoushen ^a   Arovas, Daniel P ^a   Balatsky, Alexander V ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NORDITA   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLETE CLASSIFICATION; IMPURITY SCATTERING; IMPURITY STRENGTH; LATTICE APPROACHES; RESONANCE ENERGIES; SCATTERING THEORY; STABILITY CLASSIFICATION; TIGHT BINDING MODEL;

RESONANCE; SCATTERING;

IMPURITIES;

EID: 84890492063     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/12/123019     Document Type: Article

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