Observation of possible topological in-gap surface states in the Kondo insulator SmB6 by photoemission

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jiang, J ^a   Li, S ^b   Zhang, T ^a   Sun, Z ^c   Chen, F ^d   Ye, Z R ^a   Xu, M ^a   Ge, Q Q ^a   Tan, S Y ^a   Niu, X H ^a   Xia, M ^a   Xie, B P ^a   Li, Y F ^b   Chen, X H ^c,d   Wen, H H ^b   Feng, D L ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; HYBRIDIZATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HYBRIDIZATION; INSULATOR ELEMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84893430567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4010     Document Type: Article

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