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SUBMITTER: Kanazawa N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4873648 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160516
Second-order continuous phase transitions are characterized by symmetry breaking with order parameters. Topological orders of electrons, characterized by the topological index defined in momentum space, provide a distinct perspective for phase transitions, which are categorized as quantum phase transitions not being accompanied by symmetry breaking. However, there are still limited observations of counterparts in real space. Here we show a real-space topological phase transition in a chiral magn ...[more]