Subnanometre-wide electron channels protected by topology

Nature Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 338-343

  Pauly, Christian ^a   Rasche, Bertold ^b   Koepernik, Klaus ^b,c   Liebmann, Marcus ^a   Pratzer, Marco ^a   Richter, Manuel ^b,c   Kellner, Jens ^a   Eschbach, Markus ^d   Kaufmann, Bernhard ^a   Plucinski, Lukasz ^d   Schneider, Claus M ^d   Ruck, Michael ^b,e   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^b,c   Morgenstern, Markus ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACKSCATTERING; ELECTRONS; GRAPHENE; INTERFACE STATES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

AXIAL MAGNETIC FIELD; CIRCUIT DESIGNS; CONDUCTION CHANNEL; ELECTRON CHANNEL; FAULT-TOLERANT QUANTUM COMPUTATION; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; TOPOLOGICAL STATE;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84926516302     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3264     Document Type: Article

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