Unexpected edge conduction in mercury telluride quantum wells under broken time-reversal symmetry

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ma, Eric Yue ^a,b   Calvo, M Reyes ^a,b   Wang, Jing ^a,b   Lian, Biao ^a,b   Mühlbauer, Mathias ^a,c   Brüne, Christoph ^c   Cui, Yong Tao ^a   Lai, Keji ^a,b,d   Kundhikanjana, Worasom ^a,b   Yang, Yongliang ^a   Baenninger, Matthias ^a,b   König, Markus ^a,b   Ames, Christopher ^c   Buhmann, Hartmut ^c   Leubner, Philipp ^c   Molenkamp, Laurens W ^c   Zhang, Shou Cheng ^a,b   Goldhaber Gordon, David ^a,b   Kelly, Michael A ^a   Shen, Zhi Xun ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MERCURY DERIVATIVE;

CYTOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; IMPEDANCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHYSICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; THICKNESS; TIME;

EID: 84930224930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8252     Document Type: Article

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