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Correlated Topological Insulators with Mixed Valence

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2013-03-14 v2

Abstract

We propose the local density approximation (LDA)+Gutzwiller method incorporating Green's function scheme to study the topological physics of correlated materials from the first-principles. Applying this method to typical mixed valence materials SmB6, we found its non-trivial Z2 topology, indicating that SmB6 is a strongly correlated topological insulator (TI). The unique feature of this compound is that its surface states contain three Dirac cones in contrast to most known TIs.

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@article{arxiv.1211.5863,
  title  = {Correlated Topological Insulators with Mixed Valence},
  author = {Feng Lu and JianZhou Zhao and Hongming Weng and Zhong Fang and Xi Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.5863},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures

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