TY - JOUR AU - Viyuela García, Óscar AU - Rivas Vargas, Ángel AU - Martín-Delgado Alcántara, Miguel Ángel PY - 2012 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.155140 SN - 1098-0121 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42808 T2 - Physical review B AB - We have studied the dynamical thermal effects on the protected end states of a topological insulator (TI) when it is considered as an open quantum system in interaction with a noisy environment at a certain temperature T . As a result, we find that... LA - eng PB - American Physical Society KW - Superconductors TI - Thermal instability of protected end states in a one-dimensional topological insulator TY - journal article VL - 86 ER -