2 papers
cond-mat.mes-hall2013
Topological insulators, spin, and the tight-binding method
Warren J. Elder, Eng Soon Tok, Dimitri D. Vvedensky +1
As one of the first proposed topologically protected states, the quantum spin Hall effect in graphene relies critically on the existence of a spin-dependent gap at the K/K' points…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011
Spin-orbit interaction in the k \cdot p theory for cubic crystals
Warren J. Elder, E. S. Tok, Jing Zhang
Recent work by Elder, Ward and Zhang [Phys. Rev. B83. 165210 (2011)] has shown need for correction and modification of current implementation of the k.p method and operator orderin…