Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Bologna
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journal article

Interplay of Dirac Nodes and Volkov-Pankratov Surface States in Compressively Strained HgTe

David M. Mahler, Julian-Benedikt Mayer, Philipp Leubner, Lukas Lunczer, Domenico Di Sante, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Ronny Thomale, Ewelina M. Hankiewicz, Hartmut Buhmann, Charles Gould, Laurens W. Molenkamp

Physical Review X · Vol. 9 · 2019

Abstract

Experiments turn a topological insulator into a Weyl semimetal using mechanical stress, allowing for an exploration of the exotic electronic behaviors of both systems that hint at deep connections between the two.