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Topological insulators

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Surface states are the salient feature of topological insulators. Now, experiments demonstrate that surface states can be enhanced or destroyed by applying compressive or tensile strain.

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Figure 1: The electronic band structure (energy E as a function of wavenumber k) of three-dimensional topological insulators can be changed qualitatively by strain, as Liu et al. now show1 for Bi2Se3.

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