Lighting up topological insulators: large surface photocurrents from magnetic superlattices
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Netanel H. Lindner,1 Aaron Farrell,2, 3 Eran Lustig,1 Felix von Oppen,4 and Gil Refael3 Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel Department of Physics and the Centre for Physics of Materials, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T8 Institute of Quantum Information and Matter, Dept. of Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125 Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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تاریخ انتشار 2015