Berry-phase-mediated topological thermoelectric transport in gapped single and bilayer graphene
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Chuanwei Zhang,1 Sumanta Tewari,2 and S. Das Sarma3 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA 3Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20772, USA Received 12 January 2009; revised manuscript received 1 June 2009; published 22 June 2009
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