Formation of quantum spin Hall state on Si surface and energy gap scaling with strength of spin orbit coupling

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Miao ^a   Ming, Wenmei ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a   Wang, Zhengfei ^a   Yao, Yugui ^b   Liu, Feng ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

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EID: 84921061262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07102     Document Type: Article

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