Topological phase transition in a generalized Kane-Mele-Hubbard model: A combined quantum Monte Carlo and Green’s function study
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Hsiang-Hsuan Hung,1 Lei Wang,2 Zheng-Cheng Gu,3,4 and Gregory A. Fiete1 1Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA 2Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 3Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 4Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA (Received 6 February 2013; published 27 March 2013)
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