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 …

Quantum oscillation from in-gap states and a non-Hermitian Landau level problem

H Shen, L Fu - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Motivated by recent experiments on Kondo insulators, we theoretically study quantum
oscillations from disorder-induced in-gap states in small-gap insulators. By solving a non …

Mixed-valence insulators with neutral Fermi surfaces

D Chowdhury, I Sodemann, T Senthil - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Samarium hexaboride is a classic three-dimensional mixed valence system with a high-
temperature metallic phase that evolves into a paramagnetic charge insulator below 40 K. A …

Phonon thermal transport shaped by strong spin-phonon scattering in a Kitaev material Na2Co2TeO6

X Hong, M Gillig, W Yao, L Janssen, V Kocsis… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
The report of a half-quantized thermal Hall effect and oscillatory structures in the
magnetothermal conductivity in the Kitaev material α-RuCl3 have sparked a strong debate …

de Haas-van Alphen effect of correlated Dirac states in kagome metal Fe3Sn2

L Ye, MK Chan, RD McDonald, D Graf, M Kang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Primarily considered a medium of geometric frustration, there has been a growing
recognition of the kagome network as a harbor of lattice-borne topological electronic …

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 …

Observation of highly stable and symmetric lanthanide octa-boron inverse sandwich complexes

WL Li, TT Chen, DH Xing, X Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
While boron forms a wide range of metal borides with important industrial applications, there
has been relatively little attention devoted to lanthanide boride clusters. Here we report a …

Quantum oscillations in insulators with neutral Fermi surfaces

I Sodemann, D Chowdhury, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We develop a theory of quantum oscillations in insulators with an emergent Fermi sea of
neutral fermions minimally coupled to an emergent U (1) gauge field. As pointed out by …

Quantum Oscillations in Flux-Grown with Embedded Aluminum

SM Thomas, X Ding, F Ronning, V Zapf, JD Thompson… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Sm B 6 is a candidate topological Kondo insulator that displays surface conduction at low
temperatures. Here, we perform torque magnetization measurements as a means to detect …

Unconventional thermal metallic state of charge-neutral fermions in an insulator

Y Sato, Z Xiang, Y Kasahara, T Taniguchi, S Kasahara… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Quantum oscillations in transport and thermodynamic parameters at high magnetic fields are
an unambiguous signature of the Fermi surface, the defining characteristic of a metal …