Surface electronic structure of the topological Kondo-insulator candidate correlated electron system SmB6

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Neupane, M ^a   Alidoust, N ^a   Xu, S Y ^a   Kondo, T ^b   Ishida, Y ^b   Kim, D J ^c   Liu, Chang ^a   Belopolski, I ^a   Jo, Y J ^d   Chang, T R ^e   Jeng, H T ^e,f   Durakiewicz, T ^g   Balicas, L ^h   Lin, H ⁱ   Bansil, A ⁱ   Shin, S ^b   Fisk, Z ^c   Hasan, M Z ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^e NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^g LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; HYBRIDIZATION; KONDO INSULATOR SMB6; LASER; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHOTON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RECYCLING; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNCHROTRON; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84893411515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3991     Document Type: Article

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