A novel artificial condensed matter lattice and a new platform for one-dimensional topological phases

@article{Belopolski2017ANA,
  title={A novel artificial condensed matter lattice and a new platform for one-dimensional topological phases},
  author={Ilya Belopolski and Su-Yang Xu and Nikesh Koirala and Chang Liu and Guang Bian and Vladimir N. Strocov and Guoqing Chang and Madhab Neupane and Nasser Alidoust and D. Sevilla Sanchez and Hao Zheng and Matthew Brahlek and V. A. Rogalev and Timur K. Kim and Nicholas C. Plumb and Chaoyu Chen and François Bertran and Patrick Le F{\`e}vre and Amina Taleb-Ibrahimi and Maria Carmen Asensio and Ming Shi and Hsin Lin and Moritz Hoesch and Seongshik Oh and M Zahid Hasan},
  journal={Science Advances},
  year={2017},
  volume={3}
}
Topologically protected electron states arranged artificially in real space form a highly tunable emergent atomic chain. Engineered lattices in condensed matter physics, such as cold-atom optical lattices or photonic crystals, can have properties that are fundamentally different from those of naturally occurring electronic crystals. We report a novel type of artificial quantum matter lattice. Our lattice is a multilayer heterostructure built from alternating thin films of topological and… 
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