Emergent mystery in the Kondo insulator samarium hexaboride

L Li, K Sun, C Kurdak, JW Allen - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Samarium hexaboride (SmB6) is an example of a Kondo insulator, in which strong electron
correlations cause a band gap to open. SmB6 hosts both a bulk insulating state and a …

Landau quantization and highly mobile fermions in an insulator

P Wang, G Yu, Y Jia, M Onyszczak, FA Cevallos, S Lei… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
In strongly correlated materials, quasiparticle excitations can carry fractional quantum
numbers. An intriguing possibility is the formation of fractionalized, charge-neutral fermions …

Colossal magnetoresistance in a nonsymmorphic antiferromagnetic insulator

P Rosa, Y Xu, M Rahn, J Souza, S Kushwaha… - npj Quantum …, 2020 - nature.com
Here we investigate antiferromagnetic Eu5In2Sb6, a nonsymmorphic Zintl phase. Our
electrical transport data show that Eu5In2Sb6 is remarkably insulating and exhibits an …

Gapless fermionic excitation in the antiferromagnetic state of ytterbium zigzag chain

F Hori, K Kinjo, S Kitagawa, K Ishida… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of charge-neutral fermionic excitations in magnetic systems is one of the
unresolved issues in recent condensed matter physics. This type of excitations has been …

Spin-liquid insulators can be Landau's Fermi liquids

M Fabrizio - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The long search for insulating materials that possess low-energy quasiparticles carrying
electron's quantum numbers except charge—inspired by the neutral spin-1/2 excitations, the …

Unusual high-field metal in a Kondo insulator

Z Xiang, L Chen, KW Chen, C Tinsman, Y Sato… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Strong electronic interactions in condensed-matter systems often lead to unusual quantum
phases. One such phase occurs in the Kondo insulator YbB12, the insulating state of which …

Hall Anomaly, Quantum Oscillations and Possible Lifshitz Transitions in Kondo Insulator : Evidence for Unconventional Charge Transport

Z Xiang, KW Chen, L Chen, T Asaba, Y Sato, N Zhang… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
In correlated electronic systems, strong interactions and the interplay between different
degrees of freedom may give rise to anomalous charge-transport properties, which can be …

[HTML][HTML] Time-resolved measurements in pulsed magnetic fields

Y Kohama, T Nomura, S Zherlitsyn… - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Tracking the time-dependence of a state and its observable, ie, time-resolved measurement,
is one of the ways of understanding physical principles of the system. In this Perspective, we …

Temperature-driven change in band structure reflecting spin-charge separation of Mott and Kondo insulators

M Kohno - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The electronic band structure can change with temperature in Mott and Kondo insulators,
even without a phase transition. Here, to clarify the underlying mechanism, the spectral …

Resistivity saturation in Kondo insulators

M Pickem, E Maggio, JM Tomczak - Communications Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Resistivities of heavy-fermion insulators typically saturate below a characteristic temperature
T*. For some, metallic surface states, potentially from a non-trivial bulk topology, are a likely …