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Fractionalized Fermi liquid on the surface of a topological Kondo insulator

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-03-09 v1

Abstract

We argue that topological Kondo insulators can also have 'intrinsic' topological order associated with fractionalized excitations on their surfaces. The hydridization between the local moments and conduction electrons can weaken near the surface, and this enables the local moments to form spin liquids. This co-exists with the conduction electron surface states, realizing a surface fractionalized Fermi liquid. We present mean-field solutions of a Kondo-Heisenberg model which display such surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1509.03314,
  title  = {Fractionalized Fermi liquid on the surface of a topological Kondo insulator},
  author = {Alex Thomson and Subir Sachdev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03314},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages, 4 figures