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Cubic Topological Kondo Insulators

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2014-03-21 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Current theories of Kondo insulators employ the interaction of conduction electrons with localized Kramers doublets originating from a tetragonal crystalline environment, yet all Kondo insulators are cubic. Here we develop a theory of cubic topological Kondo insulators involving the interaction of spin quartets with a conduction sea. The spin quartets greatly increase the potential for strong topological insulators, entirely eliminating the weak-topological phases from the diagram. We show that the relevant topological behavior in cubic Kondo insulators can only reside at the lower symmetry X or M points in the Brillouin zone, leading to a three Dirac cones with heavy quasiparticles.

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@article{arxiv.1303.7224,
  title  = {Cubic Topological Kondo Insulators},
  author = {Victor Alexandrov and Maxim Dzero and Piers Coleman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.7224},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures and supplementary materials. Clarifying remarks added

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