backfolding

English

Noun

backfolding (plural backfoldings)

1. 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.