Strain-tunable Berry curvature in quasi-two-dimensional chromium telluride

Hang Chi1,2, Yunbo Ou3, Tim B Eldred4

  • 1Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. chihang@mit.edu.

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