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Transport gap in SmB6 protected against disorder

Yun Suk Eo1, Alexa Rakoski2, Juniar Lucien2

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040; eohyung@umich.edu zfisk@uci.edu.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|June 12, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
heavy-fermion materialssemiconductorstopological insulator

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