Strain-induced topological insulator phase transition in HgSe
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Lars Winterfeld,1,2 Luis A. Agapito,1 Jin Li,1 Nicholas Kioussis,1,* Peter Blaha,3 and Yong P. Chen4 1Department of Physics, California State University, Northridge, California 91330-8268, USA 2Institut für Physik, University of Technology Ilmenau, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany 3Institute for Materials Chemistry, TU Vienna, A-1060 Vienna, Austria 4Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA (Received 23 November 2012; revised manuscript received 11 February 2013; published 26 February 2013)
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