Fermi surface in the absence of a Fermi liquid in the Kondo insulator SmB6

M Hartstein, WH Toews, YT Hsu, B Zeng, X Chen… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
The search for a Fermi surface in the absence of a conventional Fermi liquid has thus far
yielded very few potential candidates. Among promising materials are spin-frustrated Mott …

Samarium hexaboride is a trivial surface conductor

P Hlawenka, K Siemensmeyer, E Weschke… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
SmB6 is predicted to be the first member of the intersection of topological insulators and
Kondo insulators, strongly correlated materials in which the Fermi level lies in the gap of a …

Excitons in topological Kondo insulators: Theory of thermodynamic and transport anomalies in

J Knolle, NR Cooper - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Kondo insulating materials lie outside the usual dichotomy of weakly versus correlated—
band versus Mott—insulators. They are metallic at high temperatures but resemble band …

Magnetic field-induced intermediate quantum spin liquid with a spinon Fermi surface

ND Patel, N Trivedi - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The Kitaev model with an applied magnetic field in the H∥[111] direction shows two
transitions: from a nonabelian gapped quantum spin liquid (QSL) to a gapless QSL at H c 1≃ …

Quantum oscillation in narrow-gap topological insulators

L Zhang, XY Song, F Wang - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
The canonical understanding of quantum oscillation in metals is challenged by the
observation of the de Haas–van Alphen effect in an insulator, SmB 6 [Tan et al, Science 349 …

Imaging emergent heavy Dirac fermions of a topological Kondo insulator

H Pirie, Y Liu, A Soumyanarayanan, P Chen, Y He… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The interplay between strong electron interactions and band topology is a new frontier in the
search for exotic quantum phases. The Kondo insulator SmB6 has emerged as a promising …

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 …

Perfect Andreev reflection due to the Klein paradox in a topological superconducting state

S Lee, V Stanev, X Zhang, D Stasak, J Flowers… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
In 1928, Dirac proposed a wave equation to describe relativistic electrons. Shortly
afterwards, Klein solved a simple potential step problem for the Dirac equation and …

Theory of difference-frequency quantum oscillations

V Leeb, J Knolle - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Quantum oscillations (QOs) describe the periodic variation of physical observables as a
function of inverse magnetic field in metals. The Onsager relation connects the basic QO …

Solvable periodic Anderson model with infinite-range Hatsugai-Kohmoto interaction: Ground-states and beyond

Y Zhong - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In this paper we introduce a solvable two-orbital (two-band) model with an infinite-range
Hatsugai-Kohmoto interaction, which serves as a modified periodic Anderson model. Its …