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Monolayers have the edge

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Two studies show evidence that single layers of a transition metal dichalcogenide are two-dimensional topological insulators.

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  • 14 July 2017

    In the News & Views 'Monolayers have the edge' (Nature Physics 13, 630-631; 2017), in the third, fifth and sixth paragraphs, the citations should have been to references 3, 4 and 5, respectively. These have been corrected online 14 July 2017.

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  1. Aravind Devarakonda and Joseph G. Checkelsky are in the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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Devarakonda, A., Checkelsky, J. Monolayers have the edge. Nature Phys 13, 630–631 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4198

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