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Nature Physics 5, 378 - 380 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphys1294
Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics
Topological insulators: The next generation
Joel Moore1
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Joel Moore is in the Department of Physics, University of California, and the Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
e-mail: jemoore@berkeley.edu
Abstract
Spin–orbit coupling in some materials leads to the formation of surface states that are topologically protected from scattering. Theory and experiments have found an important new family of such materials.
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