TY  - JOUR
A1  - Galluzzi, L.
A1  - Bravo-San Pedro, J. M.
A1  - Vitale, I.
A1  - Aaronson, S. A.
A1  - Abrams, J. M.
A1  - Adam, D.
A1  - Alnemri, E. S.
A1  - Altucci, L.
A1  - Andrews, D.
A1  - Annicchiarico-Petruzelli, M.
A1  - Baehrecke, E. H.
A1  - Bazan, N. G.
A1  - Bertrand, M. J.
A1  - Bianchi, K.
A1  - Blagosklonny, M. V.
A1  - Blomgren, K.
A1  - Borner, C.
A1  - Bredesen, D. E.
A1  - Brenner, C.
A1  - Campanella, M.
A1  - Candi, E.
A1  - Cecconi, F.
A1  - Chan, F. K.
A1  - Chandel, N. S.
A1  - Cheng, E. H.
A1  - Chipuk, J. E.
A1  - Cidlowski, J. A.
A1  - Ciechanover, A.
A1  - Dawson, T. M.
A1  - Dawson, V. L.
A1  - De Laurenzi, V.
A1  - De Maria, R.
A1  - Debatin, K. M.
A1  - Di Daniele, N.
A1  - Dixit, V. M.
A1  - Dynlacht, B. D.
A1  - El-Deiry, W. S.
A1  - Fimia, G. M.
A1  - Flavell, R. A.
A1  - Fulda, S.
A1  - Garrido, C.
A1  - Gougeon, M. L.
A1  - Green, D. R.
A1  - Gronemeyer, H.
A1  - Hajnoczky, G.
A1  - Hardwick, J. M.
A1  - Hengartner, M. O.
A1  - Ichijo, H.
A1  - Joseph, B.
A1  - Jost, P. J.
A1  - Kaufmann, T.
A1  - Kepp, O.
A1  - Klionsky, D. J.
A1  - Knight, R. A.
A1  - Kumar, S.
A1  - Lemasters, J. J.
A1  - Levine, B.
A1  - Linkermann, A.
A1  - Lipton, S. A.
A1  - Lockshin, R. A.
A1  - López-Otín, C.
A1  - Lugli, E.
A1  - Madeo, F.
A1  - Malorni, W.
A1  - Marine, J. C.
A1  - Martin, S. J.
A1  - Martinou, J. C.
A1  - Medema, J. P.
A1  - Meier, P.
A1  - Melino, S.
A1  - Mizushima, N.
A1  - Moll, U.
A1  - Muñoz-Pinedo, C.
A1  - Nuñez, G.
A1  - Oberst, A.
A1  - Panaretakis, T.
A1  - Penninger, J. M.
A1  - Peter, M. E.
A1  - Piacentini, M.
A1  - Pinton, P.
A1  - Prehn, J. H.
A1  - Puthalakath, H.
A1  - Rabinovich, G. A.
A1  - Ravichandran, K. S.
A1  - Rizzuto, R.
A1  - Rodrigues, C. M.
A1  - Rubinsztein, D. C.
A1  - Rudel, T.
A1  - Shi, Y.
A1  - Simon, H. U.
A1  - Stockwell, B. R.
A1  - Szabadkai, G.
A1  - Tait, S. W.
A1  - Tang, H. L.
A1  - Tavernarakis, N.
A1  - Tsujimoto, Y.
A1  - Vanden Berghe, T.
A1  - Vandenabeele, P.
A1  - Villunger, A.
A1  - Wagner, E. F.
A1  - Walczak, H.
A1  - White, E.
A1  - Wood, W. G.
A1  - Yuan, J.
A1  - Zakeri, Z.
A1  - Zhivotovsky, B.
A1  - Melino, G.
A1  - Kroemer, G.
T1  - Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015
JF  - Cell Death and Differentiation
N2  - Cells exposed to extreme physicochemical or mechanical stimuli die in an uncontrollable manner, as a result of their immediate structural breakdown. Such an unavoidable variant of cellular demise is generally referred to as 'accidental cell death' (ACD). In most settings, however, cell death is initiated by a genetically encoded apparatus, correlating with the fact that its course can be altered by pharmacologic or genetic interventions. 'Regulated cell death' (RCD) can occur as part of physiologic programs or can be activated once adaptive responses to perturbations of the extracellular or intracellular microenvironment fail. The biochemical phenomena that accompany RCD may be harnessed to classify it into a few subtypes, which often (but not always) exhibit stereotyped morphologic features. Nonetheless, efficiently inhibiting the processes that are commonly thought to cause RCD, such as the activation of executioner caspases in the course of apoptosis, does not exert true cytoprotective effects in the mammalian system, but simply alters the kinetics of cellular demise as it shifts its morphologic and biochemical correlates. Conversely, bona fide cytoprotection can be achieved by inhibiting the transduction of lethal signals in the early phases of the process, when adaptive responses are still operational. Thus, the mechanisms that truly execute RCD may be less understood, less inhibitable and perhaps more homogeneous than previously thought. Here, the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death formulates a set of recommendations to help scientists and researchers to discriminate between essential and accessory aspects of cell death.
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-121207
VL  - 22
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bousquet, J.
A1  - Farrell, J.
A1  - Crooks, G.
A1  - Hellings, P.
A1  - Bel, E. H.
A1  - Bewick, M.
A1  - Chavannes, N. H.
A1  - Correia de Sousa, J.
A1  - Cruz, A. A.
A1  - Haahtela, T.
A1  - Joos, G.
A1  - Khaltaev, N.
A1  - Malva, J.
A1  - Muraro, A.
A1  - Nogues, M.
A1  - Palkonen, S.
A1  - Pedersen, S.
A1  - Robalo-Cordeiro, C.
A1  - Samolinski, B.
A1  - Strandberg, T.
A1  - Valiulis, A.
A1  - Yorgancioglu, A.
A1  - Zuberbier, T.
A1  - Bedbrook, A.
A1  - Aberer, W.
A1  - Adachi, M.
A1  - Agusti, A.
A1  - Akdis, C. A.
A1  - Akdis, M.
A1  - Ankri, J.
A1  - Alonso, A.
A1  - Annesi-Maesano, I.
A1  - Ansotegui, I. J.
A1  - Anto, J. M.
A1  - Arnavielhe, S.
A1  - Arshad, H.
A1  - Bai, C.
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A1  - Bennoor, K. S.
A1  - Benson, M.
A1  - Bergmann, K. C.
A1  - Bieber, T.
A1  - Bindslev-Jensen, C.
A1  - Bjermer, L.
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A1  - Bosnic-Anticevitch, S.
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A1  - Dykewicz, M. S.
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T1  - Scaling up strategies of the chronic respiratory disease programme of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (Action Plan B3: Area 5)
JF  - Clinical and Translational Allergy
N2  - Action Plan B3 of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) focuses on the integrated care of chronic diseases. Area 5 (Care Pathways) was initiated using chronic respiratory diseases as a model. The chronic respiratory disease action plan includes (1) AIRWAYS integrated care pathways (ICPs), (2) the joint initiative between the Reference site MACVIA-LR (Contre les MAladies Chroniques pour un VIeillissement Actif) and ARIA (Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma), (3) Commitments for Action to the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing and the AIRWAYS ICPs network. It is deployed in collaboration with the World Health Organization Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD). The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing has proposed a 5-step framework for developing an individual scaling up strategy: (1) what to scale up: (1-a) databases of good practices, (1-b) assessment of viability of the scaling up of good practices, (1-c) classification of good practices for local replication and (2) how to scale up: (2-a) facilitating partnerships for scaling up, (2-b) implementation of key success factors and lessons learnt, including emerging technologies for individualised and predictive medicine. This strategy has already been applied to the chronic respiratory disease action plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.
KW  - EIP on AHA
KW  - European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
KW  - AIRWAYS ICPs
KW  - MACVIA
KW  - Scaling up
KW  - Chronic respiratory diseases
KW  - ARIA
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-166874
VL  - 6
IS  - 29
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Davis, Lea K.
A1  - Yu, Dongmei
A1  - Keenan, Clare L.
A1  - Gamazon, Eric R.
A1  - Konkashbaev, Anuar I.
A1  - Derks, Eske M.
A1  - Neale, Benjamin M.
A1  - Yang, Jian
A1  - Lee, S. Hong
A1  - Evans, Patrick
A1  - Barr, Cathy L.
A1  - Bellodi, Laura
A1  - Benarroch, Fortu
A1  - Berrio, Gabriel Bedoya
A1  - Bienvenu, Oscar J.
A1  - Bloch, Michael H.
A1  - Blom, Rianne M.
A1  - Bruun, Ruth D.
A1  - Budman, Cathy L.
A1  - Camarena, Beatriz
A1  - Campbell, Desmond
A1  - Cappi, Carolina
A1  - Cardona Silgado, Julio C.
A1  - Cath, Danielle C.
A1  - Cavallini, Maria C.
A1  - Chavira, Denise A.
A1  - Chouinard, Sylvian
A1  - Conti, David V.
A1  - Cook, Edwin H.
A1  - Coric, Vladimir
A1  - Cullen, Bernadette A.
A1  - Deforce, Dieter
A1  - Delorme, Richard
A1  - Dion, Yves
A1  - Edlund, Christopher K.
A1  - Egberts, Karin
A1  - Falkai, Peter
A1  - Fernandez, Thomas V.
A1  - Gallagher, Patience J.
A1  - Garrido, Helena
A1  - Geller, Daniel
A1  - Girard, Simon L.
A1  - Grabe, Hans J.
A1  - Grados, Marco A.
A1  - Greenberg, Benjamin D.
A1  - Gross-Tsur, Varda
A1  - Haddad, Stephen
A1  - Heiman, Gary A.
A1  - Hemmings, Sian M. J.
A1  - Hounie, Ana G.
A1  - Illmann, Cornelia
A1  - Jankovic, Joseph
A1  - Jenike, Micheal A.
A1  - Kennedy, James L.
A1  - King, Robert A.
A1  - Kremeyer, Barbara
A1  - Kurlan, Roger
A1  - Lanzagorta, Nuria
A1  - Leboyer, Marion
A1  - Leckman, James F.
A1  - Lennertz, Leonhard
A1  - Liu, Chunyu
A1  - Lochner, Christine
A1  - Lowe, Thomas L.
A1  - Macciardi, Fabio
A1  - McCracken, James T.
A1  - McGrath, Lauren M.
A1  - Restrepo, Sandra C. Mesa
A1  - Moessner, Rainald
A1  - Morgan, Jubel
A1  - Muller, Heike
A1  - Murphy, Dennis L.
A1  - Naarden, Allan L.
A1  - Ochoa, William Cornejo
A1  - Ophoff, Roel A.
A1  - Osiecki, Lisa
A1  - Pakstis, Andrew J.
A1  - Pato, Michele T.
A1  - Pato, Carlos N.
A1  - Piacentini, John
A1  - Pittenger, Christopher
A1  - Pollak, Yehunda
A1  - Rauch, Scott L.
A1  - Renner, Tobias J.
A1  - Reus, Victor I.
A1  - Richter, Margaret A.
A1  - Riddle, Mark A.
A1  - Robertson, Mary M.
A1  - Romero, Roxana
A1  - Rosàrio, Maria C.
A1  - Rosenberg, David
A1  - Rouleau, Guy A.
A1  - Ruhrmann, Stephan
A1  - Ruiz-Linares, Andreas
A1  - Sampaio, Aline S.
A1  - Samuels, Jack
A1  - Sandor, Paul
A1  - Sheppard, Broke
A1  - Singer, Harvey S.
A1  - Smit, Jan H.
A1  - Stein, Dan J.
A1  - Strengman, E.
A1  - Tischfield, Jay A.
A1  - Valencia Duarte, Ana V.
A1  - Vallada, Homero
A1  - Van Nieuwerburgh, Flip
A1  - Veenstra-VanderWeele, Jeremy
A1  - Walitza, Susanne
A1  - Wang, Ying
A1  - Wendland, Jens R.
A1  - Westenberg, Herman G. M.
A1  - Shugart, Yin Yao
A1  - Miguel, Euripedes C.
A1  - McMahon, William
A1  - Wagner, Michael
A1  - Nicolini, Humberto
A1  - Posthuma, Danielle
A1  - Hanna, Gregory L.
A1  - Heutink, Peter
A1  - Denys, Damiaan
A1  - Arnold, Paul D.
A1  - Oostra, Ben A.
A1  - Nestadt, Gerald
A1  - Freimer, Nelson B.
A1  - Pauls, David L.
A1  - Wray, Naomi R.
A1  - Stewart, S. Evelyn
A1  - Mathews, Carol A.
A1  - Knowles, James A.
A1  - Cox, Nancy J.
A1  - Scharf, Jeremiah M.
T1  - Partitioning the Heritability of Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Reveals Differences in Genetic Architecture
JF  - PLoS Genetics
N2  - The direct estimation of heritability from genome-wide common variant data as implemented in the program Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis (GCTA) has provided a means to quantify heritability attributable to all interrogated variants. We have quantified the variance in liability to disease explained by all SNPs for two phenotypically-related neurobehavioral disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette Syndrome (TS), using GCTA. Our analysis yielded a heritability point estimate of 0.58 (se = 0.09, p = 5.64e-12) for TS, and 0.37 (se = 0.07, p = 1.5e-07) for OCD. In addition, we conducted multiple genomic partitioning analyses to identify genomic elements that concentrate this heritability. We examined genomic architectures of TS and OCD by chromosome, MAF bin, and functional annotations. In addition, we assessed heritability for early onset and adult onset OCD. Among other notable results, we found that SNPs with a minor allele frequency of less than 5% accounted for 21% of the TS heritability and 0% of the OCD heritability. Additionally, we identified a significant contribution to TS and OCD heritability by variants significantly associated with gene expression in two regions of the brain (parietal cortex and cerebellum) for which we had available expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs). Finally we analyzed the genetic correlation between TS and OCD, revealing a genetic correlation of 0.41 (se = 0.15, p = 0.002). These results are very close to previous heritability estimates for TS and OCD based on twin and family studies, suggesting that very little, if any, heritability is truly missing (i.e., unassayed) from TS and OCD GWAS studies of common variation. The results also indicate that there is some genetic overlap between these two phenotypically-related neuropsychiatric disorders, but suggest that the two disorders have distinct genetic architectures.
KW  - TIC disorders
KW  - missing heritability
KW  - complex diseases
KW  - neuropsychiatric disorders
KW  - common SNPS
KW  - gilles
KW  - family
KW  - brain
KW  - expression
KW  - autism
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-127377
SN  - 1553-7390
VL  - 9
IS  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Diers, J.
A1  - Wagner, J.
A1  - Baum, P.
A1  - Lichthardt, S.
A1  - Kastner, C.
A1  - Matthes, N.
A1  - Matthes, H.
A1  - Germer, C.‐T.
A1  - Löb, S.
A1  - Wiegering, A.
T1  - Nationwide in‐hospital mortality rate following rectal resection for rectal cancer according to annual hospital volume in Germany
JF  - BJS Open
N2  - Background
The impact of hospital volume after rectal cancer surgery is seldom investigated. This study aimed to analyse the impact of annual rectal cancer surgery cases per hospital on postoperative mortality and failure to rescue.

Methods
All patients diagnosed with rectal cancer and who had a rectal resection procedure code from 2012 to 2015 were identified from nationwide administrative hospital data. Hospitals were grouped into five quintiles according to caseload. The absolute number of patients, postoperative deaths and failure to rescue (defined as in‐hospital mortality after a documented postoperative complication) for severe postoperative complications were determined.

Results
Some 64 349 patients were identified. The overall in‐house mortality rate was 3·9 per cent. The crude in‐hospital mortality rate ranged from 5·3 per cent in very low‐volume hospitals to 2·6 per cent in very high‐volume centres, with a distinct trend between volume categories (P < 0·001). In multivariable logistic regression analysis using hospital volume as random effect, very high‐volume hospitals (53 interventions/year) had a risk‐adjusted odds ratio of 0·58 (95 per cent c.i. 0·47 to 0·73), compared with the baseline in‐house mortality rate in very low‐volume hospitals (6 interventions per year) (P < 0·001). The overall postoperative complication rate was comparable between different volume quintiles, but failure to rescue decreased significantly with increasing caseload (15·6 per cent after pulmonary embolism in the highest volume quintile versus 38 per cent in the lowest quintile; P = 0·010).

Conclusion
Patients who had rectal cancer surgery in high‐volume hospitals showed better outcomes and reduced failure to rescue rates for severe complications than those treated in low‐volume hospitals.
KW  - rectal resection
KW  - rectal cancer
KW  - mortality rate
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-212878
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
SP  - 310
EP  - 319
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Diers, J.
A1  - Wagner, J.
A1  - Baum, P.
A1  - Lichthardt, S.
A1  - Kastner, C.
A1  - Matthes, N.
A1  - Löb, S.
A1  - Matthes, H.
A1  - Germer, C.-T.
A1  - Wiegering, A.
T1  - Nationwide in-hospital mortality following colonic cancer
resection according to hospital volume in Germany
JF  - BJS Open
N2  - Background:
Colonic cancer is the most common cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. The aim of this study was to determine mortality rates following colonic cancer resection and the effect of hospital caseload on in-hospital mortality in Germany.

Methods: 
Patients admitted with a diagnosis of colonic cancer undergoing colonic resection from 2012 to 2015 were identifed from a nationwide registry using procedure codes. The outcome measure was in-hospital mortality. Hospitals were ranked according to their caseload for colonic cancer resection, and patients were categorized into five subgroups on the basis of hospital volume.

Results: 
Some 129 196 colonic cancer resections were reviewed. The overall in-house mortality rate was 5⋅8 per cent, ranging from 6⋅9 per cent (1775 of 25 657 patients) in very low-volume hospitals to 4⋅8 per cent (1239 of 25 825) in very high-volume centres (P < 0⋅001). In multivariable logistic regression analysis the risk-adjusted odds ratio for in-house mortality was 0⋅75 (95 per cent c.i. 0⋅66 to 0⋅84) in very high-volume hospitals performing a mean of 85⋅0 interventions per year, compared with that in very low-volume hospitals performing a mean of only 12⋅7 interventions annually, after adjustment for sex, age, co-morbidity, emergency procedures, prolonged mechanical ventilation and transfusion.

Conclusion: 
In Germany, patients undergoing colonic cancer resections in high-volume hospitals had with improved outcomes compared with patients treated in low-volume hospitals
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-204385
VL  - 3
IS  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Haake, Markus
A1  - Haack, Beatrice
A1  - Schäfer, Tina
A1  - Harter, Patrick N.
A1  - Mattavelli, Greta
A1  - Eiring, Patrick
A1  - Vashist, Neha
A1  - Wedekink, Florian
A1  - Genssler, Sabrina
A1  - Fischer, Birgitt
A1  - Dahlhoff, Julia
A1  - Mokhtari, Fatemeh
A1  - Kuzkina, Anastasia
A1  - Welters, Marij J. P.
A1  - Benz, Tamara M.
A1  - Sorger, Lena
A1  - Thiemann, Vincent
A1  - Almanzar, Giovanni
A1  - Selle, Martina
A1  - Thein, Klara
A1  - Späth, Jacob
A1  - Gonzalez, Maria Cecilia
A1  - Reitinger, Carmen
A1  - Ipsen-Escobedo, Andrea
A1  - Wistuba-Hamprecht, Kilian
A1  - Eichler, Kristin
A1  - Filipski, Katharina
A1  - Zeiner, Pia S.
A1  - Beschorner, Rudi
A1  - Goedemans, Renske
A1  - Gogolla, Falk Hagen
A1  - Hackl, Hubert
A1  - Rooswinkel, Rogier W.
A1  - Thiem, Alexander
A1  - Romer Roche, Paula
A1  - Joshi, Hemant
A1  - Pühringer, Dirk
A1  - Wöckel, Achim
A1  - Diessner, Joachim E.
A1  - Rüdiger, Manfred
A1  - Leo, Eugen
A1  - Cheng, Phil F.
A1  - Levesque, Mitchell P.
A1  - Goebeler, Matthias
A1  - Sauer, Markus
A1  - Nimmerjahn, Falk
A1  - Schuberth-Wagner, Christine
A1  - Felten, Stefanie von
A1  - Mittelbronn, Michel
A1  - Mehling, Matthias
A1  - Beilhack, Andreas
A1  - van der Burg, Sjoerd H.
A1  - Riedel, Angela
A1  - Weide, Benjamin
A1  - Dummer, Reinhard
A1  - Wischhusen, Jörg
T1  - Tumor-derived GDF-15 blocks LFA-1 dependent T cell recruitment and suppresses responses to anti-PD-1 treatment
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - Immune checkpoint blockade therapy is beneficial and even curative for some cancer patients. However, the majority don’t respond to immune therapy. Across different tumor types, pre-existing T cell infiltrates predict response to checkpoint-based immunotherapy. Based on in vitro pharmacological studies, mouse models and analyses of human melanoma patients, we show that the cytokine GDF-15 impairs LFA-1/β2-integrin-mediated adhesion of T cells to activated endothelial cells, which is a pre-requisite of T cell extravasation. In melanoma patients, GDF-15 serum levels strongly correlate with failure of PD-1-based immune checkpoint blockade therapy. Neutralization of GDF-15 improves both T cell trafficking and therapy efficiency in murine tumor models. Thus GDF-15, beside its known role in cancer-related anorexia and cachexia, emerges as a regulator of T cell extravasation into the tumor microenvironment, which provides an even stronger rationale for therapeutic anti-GDF-15 antibody development.
KW  - cancer microenvironment
KW  - immunotherapy
KW  - T cells
KW  - tumour immunology
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-357333
VL  - 14
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wagner, N.
A1  - Crippa, L.
A1  - Amaricci, A.
A1  - Hansmann, P.
A1  - Klett, M.
A1  - König, E. J.
A1  - Schäfer, T.
A1  - Di Sante, D.
A1  - Cano, J.
A1  - Millis, A. J.
A1  - Georges, A.
A1  - Sangiovanni, G.
T1  - Mott insulators with boundary zeros
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - The topological classification of electronic band structures is based on symmetry properties of Bloch eigenstates of single-particle Hamiltonians. In parallel, topological field theory has opened the doors to the formulation and characterization of non-trivial phases of matter driven by strong electron-electron interaction. Even though important examples of topological Mott insulators have been constructed, the relevance of the underlying non-interacting band topology to the physics of the Mott phase has remained unexplored. Here, we show that the momentum structure of the Green’s function zeros defining the “Luttinger surface" provides a topological characterization of the Mott phase related, in the simplest description, to the one of the single-particle electronic dispersion. Considerations on the zeros lead to the prediction of new phenomena: a topological Mott insulator with an inverted gap for the bulk zeros must possess gapless zeros at the boundary, which behave as a form of “topological antimatter” annihilating conventional edge states. Placing band and Mott topological insulators in contact produces distinctive observable signatures at the interface, revealing the otherwise spectroscopically elusive Green’s function zeros.
KW  - electronic properties and materials
KW  - topological insulators
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-358150
VL  - 14
ER  -