Topological states in multi-orbital HgTe honeycomb lattices

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Beugeling, W ^a   Kalesaki, E ^b,c   Delerue, C ^c   Niquet, Y M ^d,e   Vanmaekelbergh, D ^f   Smith, C Morais ^g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; MERCURY; MERCURY TELLURIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; COULOMB CRITERION; GEOMETRY; LATTICE DYNAMICS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); QUANTUM MECHANICS; TELLURIDE; TOPOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84924690700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7316     Document Type: Article

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