Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state

Nature

Volumn 505, Issue 7484, 2014, Pages 528-532

  Young, A F ^a   Sanchez Yamagishi, J D ^a   Hunt, B ^a   Choi, S H ^a   Watanabe, K ^b   Taniguchi, T ^b   Ashoori, R C ^a   Jarillo Herrero, P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; GRAPHENE;

CARBON; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SYMMETRY; TOPOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; ROTATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SYMMETRY PROTECTED TOPOLOGICAL PHASE;

EID: 84892820871     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12800     Document Type: Article

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