Figure 1: Topological insulators are finite-sized lattice systems (IMAGE)

Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI)

Figure 1: Topological insulators are finite-sized lattice systems

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Figure 1: Topological insulators are finite-sized lattice systems (a) that exhibit eigenspectra where (b) the eigenenergies of bulk states (c) exhibit a band gap that (d) contains the eigenenergies of so-called edge states.

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