Symmetry-Breaking Supercollisions in Landau-Quantized Graphene

Florian Wendler1, Martin Mittendorff2,3, Jacob C König-Otto3,4

  • 1Department of Theoretical Physics, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany.

Physical Review Letters
|September 27, 2017
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