Metallic interface emerging at magnetic domain wall of antiferromagnetic insulator: Fate of extinct weyl electrons

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Yamaji, Youhei ^a   Imada, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; DOMAIN WALLS; MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; SOLITONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC INSULATORS; ELECTRONIC INTERFACE; FUNCTIONAL INTERFACE; METALLIC INTERFACES; METALLIC SURFACE; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL METALS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84904581007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021035     Document Type: Article

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