Current partition at topological channel intersections

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 20, 2014, Pages

  Qiao, Zhenhua ^a,b,c   Jung, Jeil ^c,d   Lin, Chungwei ^c   Ren, Yafei ^a,b   Macdonald, Allan H ^c   Niu, Qian ^c,e  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

CHANNEL INTERSECTIONS; CHIRAL CHANNELS; CURRENT PATHS; TOPOLOGICAL CURRENTS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84901411250     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.206601     Document Type: Article

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