Timeline for What happens when a bare 3d topological insulator is subject to a magnetic field?
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| Oct 13, 2012 at 0:26 | comment | added | Xiao-Gang Wen | " topological insulator cannot be defined in magnetic field" means that in magnetic field, topological insulator and trivial band insulator become the same phase. This does not prevent people to study Maxwell equation in such phase. | |
| Oct 12, 2012 at 4:50 | comment | added | Timothy | Hi Prof. Wen, thanks for your answer. If topological insulator cannot be defined in magnetic field, why Qi's paper "topological field theory of time-reversal insulators" still studies the Maxwell equations in topological insulators? | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 14:31 | comment | added | Machine | Thank you for your answer! But it may not be too bad with a finite magnetic field. | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 13:54 | vote | accept | Machine | ||
| Sep 9, 2012 at 3:46 | history | edited | Xiao-Gang Wen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2012 at 8:43 | history | answered | Xiao-Gang Wen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |