Tri-Dirac Surface Modes in Topological Superconductors
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Chen Fang, B. Andrei Bernevig and Matthew J. Gilbert Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana IL 61801-3080 Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana IL 61801 Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana IL 61801 and Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Rome ”Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy 00133 (Dated: January 10, 2014)
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