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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

  1. 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


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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