Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid
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Kasahara, Y., Ohnishi, T., Mizukami, Y., Tanaka, O., Ma, S., Sugii, K., Kurita, N., Tanaka, H., Nasu, J., Motome, Y., Shibauchi, T., & Matsuda, Y. (2018). Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid. Nature, 559(7713), 227–231.

Authors 12
  1. Y. Kasahara (first)
  2. T. Ohnishi (additional)
  3. Y. Mizukami (additional)
  4. O. Tanaka (additional)
  5. Sixiao Ma (additional)
  6. K. Sugii (additional)
  7. N. Kurita (additional)
  8. H. Tanaka (additional)
  9. J. Nasu (additional)
  10. Y. Motome (additional)
  11. T. Shibauchi (additional)
  12. Y. Matsuda (additional)
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@article{Kasahara_2018, title={Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid}, volume={559}, ISSN={1476-4687}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0274-0}, DOI={10.1038/s41586-018-0274-0}, number={7713}, journal={Nature}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Kasahara, Y. and Ohnishi, T. and Mizukami, Y. and Tanaka, O. and Ma, Sixiao and Sugii, K. and Kurita, N. and Tanaka, H. and Nasu, J. and Motome, Y. and Shibauchi, T. and Matsuda, Y.}, year={2018}, month=jul, pages={227–231} }