Experimental evidence for non-Abelian gauge potentials in twisted graphene bilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Yin, Long Jing ^a   Qiao, Jia Bin ^a   Zuo, Wei Jie ^a   Li, Wen Tian ^a   He, Lin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84940093273     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.081406     Document Type: Article

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