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Topological insulators in three dimensions are nonmagnetic insulators that possess metallic surface states as a consequence of the nontrivial topology of electronic wavefunctions in the bulk of the material. They are the first known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-26 M. Zahid Hasan , Joel E. Moore

We study a layered three-dimensional heterostructure in which two types of Kondo insulators are stacked alternatingly. One of them is the topological Kondo insulator SmB 6 , the other one an isostructural Kondo insulator AB 6 , where A is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-07 Seulgi Ok , Markus Legner , Titus Neupert , Ashley M. Cook

We construct a simple model for electrons in a three-dimensional crystal where a combination of short-range hopping and spin-orbit coupling results in nearly flat bands characterized by a non-trivial Z2 topological index. The flat band is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-27 C. Weeks , M. Franz

We revisit the problem of a single quantum impurity on the edge of a two-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological insulator and show that the zero temperature phase diagram contains a large local moment region for antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-14 Joseph Maciejko

The effect of the strong electron correlation on the topological phase structure of 2-dimensional (2D) and 3D topological insulators is investigated, in terms of lattice gauge theory. The effective model for noninteracting system is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-18 Yasufumi Araki , Taro Kimura , Akihiko Sekine , Kentaro Nomura , Takashi Z. Nakano

The discovery of superconductivity and correlated electronic phases in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025) has generated considerable excitement. Accompanying the superconductivity and a correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-28 Fang Xie , Chenyuan Li , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

We study Kondo physics of a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ impurity in electronic matter with strong spin-orbit interaction, which can be realized by depositing magnetic adatoms on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-10 L. Isaev , G. Ortiz , I. Vekhter

Topological phases of matter provide a flexible platform to engineer unconventional quantum excitations in quantum materials. Beyond single particle topological matter, in systems with strong quantum many-body correlations, many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-21 Zina Lippo , Elizabeth Louis Pereira , Jose L. Lado , Guangze Chen

We have studied the one-dimensional $p$-wave periodic Anderson model at finite temperature with the help of the numerically exact determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulation. It is found that the topological Haldane phase established for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-25 Yin Zhong , Yu Liu , Qin Wang , Ke Liu , Hai-Feng Song , Hong-Gang Luo

Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states inside the bulk band gap.These topological surface states are robust against the weak time-reversal invariant perturbations, such as lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The recent discovery of topological insulators has revived interest in the topological properties of insulating band structures. In this work, we extend the topological classification of insulating band structures to include certain point…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-15 Liang Fu

We consider a one-dimensional multi-orbital Kondo lattice model and show that by tuning the kinetic energy of the itinerant electrons it is possible to stabilize Kondo insulators with non-trivial spin physics. In particular, depending on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-29 Nai Chao Hu , Rui-Zhen Huang , Nick Bultinck

We propose the notion of spin-selective Kondo insulator, which provides a fundamental mechanism to describe the ferromagnetic phase of the Kondo lattice model with antiferromagnetic coupling. This unveils a remarkable feature of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-24 Robert Peters , Norio Kawakami , Thomas Pruschke

As an exemplary Kondo insulator, SmB6 has been studied for several decades; however, direct evidence for the development of the Kondo coherent state and the evolution of the electronic structure in the material has not been obtained due to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-15 Xiaohang Zhang , N. P. Butch , P. Syers , S. Ziemak , Richard L. Greene , J. Paglione

We consider the simplest variant of a Kondo insulator where a doublet of localized $f$-electrons hybridizes with spin-degenerate conduction electrons. We analyse the symmetries of $f$-orbitals involved in the hybridization and point out…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-01 M. A. Griffith , M. A. Continentino , T. O. Puel

The periodic Anderson model is extended by switching on a Hubbard U for the conduction electrons. We use the Gutzwiller variational method to study the nearly integral valent limit. The lattice Kondo energy contains the U-dependent chemical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 P. Fazekas , K. Itai

These lecture notes give a brief introduction to heavy fermion physics, emphasizing aspects of particular modern interest. Following an introduction to the Kondo effect and the phenomenology of heavy fermions, the article introduces Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-17 Piers Coleman

Topological insulators are materials characterized by dissipationless, spin-polarized surface states resulting from non-trivial band topologies. Recent theoretical models and experiments suggest that SmB6 is the first topological Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-25 W. A. Phelan , S. M. Koohpayeh , P. Cottingham , J. W. Freeland , J. C. Leiner , C. L. Broholm , T. M. McQueen

Kondo insulators have recently aroused great interest because they are promising materials that host a topological insulator state caused by the strong electron interactions. Moreover, recent observations of the quantum oscillations in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Y. Sato , Z. Xiang , Y. Kasahara , S. Kasahara , Lu Chen , C. Tinsman , F. Iga , J. Singleton , N. L. Nair , N. Maksimovic , J. G. Analytis , Lu Li , Y. Matsuda

Magnetic oscillations in strongly correlated insulating systems have garnered interest due to oscillations seemingly originating from the bulk, despite an anticipated gapped spectrum. We use the large-$N$ mean-field theory to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-04 Kaize Wang , Yang Ge , Yashar Komijani