Theory of topological Kondo insulators
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Maxim Dzero,1 Kai Sun,2 Piers Coleman,3,4 and Victor Galitski2 1Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA 2Joint Quantum Institute and Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA 3Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA 4Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom (Received 15 November 2011; revised manuscript received 6 January 2012; published 30 January 2012)
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