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Magnetic quantum oscillation in a monolayer insulator

Xin Lu

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 Corresponding author: Xin Lu, xlu5@tulane.edu

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Fig. 1.  (Color online) (a) Device schematic showing electrodes in contact with WTe2 in small selected areas without touching the edge of the sample. (b) A magnetoresistance curve taken at low temperature. Zoom-in view of data at low field is shown in the inset. Figures are adapted from Ref. [1] with permission.

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Wang P, Yu G, Jia Y, et al. Landau quantization and highly mobile fermions in an insulator. Nature, 2021, 589, 225 doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-03084-9
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[3]
Tang S J, Zhang C F, Wong D, et al. Quantum spin Hall state in monolayer 1T'-WTe2. Nat Phys, 2017, 13, 683 doi: 10.1038/nphys4174
[4]
Fei Z Y, Palomaki T, Wu S F, et al. Edge conduction in monolayer WTe2. Nat Phys, 2017, 13, 677 doi: 10.1038/nphys4091
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[7]
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        Xin Lu earned her bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University in 2012, and her PhD from Nanyang Technological University in 2017. Subsequently, Lu joined Prof. Ajit Srivastava’s group at Emory University as a postdoc. Since January 2021, Lu has started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at Tulane University

      • Corresponding author: xlu5@tulane.edu
      • Received Date: 2021-01-17
      • Revised Date: 2021-03-08
      • Published Date: 2021-06-10

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