Edge Plasmons in Two-Component Electron Liquids in the Presence of Pseudomagnetic Fields

Alessandro Principi1, Mikhail I Katsnelson1, Giovanni Vignale2

  • 1Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, NL-6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Physical Review Letters
|November 19, 2016
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