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Helical edge states and edge-state transport in strained armchair graphene nanoribbons

A helical type edge state, which is generally supported only on graphene with zigzag boundaries, is found to also appear in armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and a suitable strain. At a critical strain, there appears a quantum phase transition from a quan...

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Main Authors: Liu, Zheng-Fang, Wu, Qing-Ping, Chen, Ai-Xi, Xiao, Xian-Bo, Liu, Nian-Hua, Miao, Guo-Xing
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5562773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28821764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08954-3