Mapping the unconventional orbital texture in topological crystalline insulators

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 572-577

  Zeljkovic, Ilija ^a   Okada, Yoshinori ^a,b   Huang, Cheng Yi ^c   Sankar, R ^d   Walkup, Daniel ^a   Zhou, Wenwen ^a   Serbyn, Maksym ^e   Chou, Fangcheng ^d   Tsai, Wei Feng ^c   Lin, Hsin ^f   Bansil, A ^g   Fu, Liang ^e   Hasan, M Zahid ^h   Madhavan, Vidya ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^g NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; TEXTURES; TOPOLOGY;

COMPLEX BAND STRUCTURES; CRYSTALLINE INSULATORS; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LIFSHITZ TRANSITION; QUANTUM APPLICATIONS; SCANNING TUNNELLING SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE-STATE ELECTRONS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84905495256     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3012     Document Type: Article

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