backfolding
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]backfolding (plural backfoldings)
- A folding backwards.
- 2015, Pier Paolo Baruselli, Matthias Vojta, “Surface reconstruction in a tight-binding model for the topological Kondo insulator SmB6”, in arXiv[1]:
- While the former leads to a weak backfolding of surface bands only, the latter can modify the surface-state dispersion and lead to a Lifshitz transition.