Observation of a Helical Luttinger Liquid in InAs/GaSb Quantum Spin Hall Edges

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Li, Tingxin ^a,d   Wang, Pengjie ^a,d   Fu, Hailong ^a,d   Du, Lingjie ^b   Schreiber, Kate A ^c   Mu, Xiaoyang ^a,d   Liu, Xiaoxue ^a,d   Sullivan, Gerard ^e   Csáthy, Gábor A ^c   Lin, Xi ^a,d   Du, Rui Rui ^a,b,d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e ROCKWELL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; INDIUM ANTIMONIDES; LIQUIDS; TEMPERATURE;

CORRELATION EFFECT; FERMI VELOCITIES; LOW TEMPERATURES; LUTTINGER LIQUIDS; LUTTINGER PARAMETER; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; POWER-LAW BEHAVIOR; QUANTUM SPIN HALLS;

BIAS VOLTAGE;

EID: 84943328059     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.136804     Document Type: Article

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