One-dimensional topological edge states of bismuth bilayers

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 664-669

  Drozdov, Ilya K ^a   Alexandradinata, A ^a   Jeon, Sangjun ^a   Nadj Perge, Stevan ^a   Ji, Huiwen ^a   Cava, R J ^a   Bernevig, B Andrei ^a   Yazdani, Ali ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; COHERENT SCATTERING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; TOPOLOGY;

COHERENT PROPAGATION; CONFINED GEOMETRIES; INSULATING STATE; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUASI PARTICLES; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SPECTROSCOPIC EVIDENCE; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84905303392     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3048     Document Type: Article

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