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Motivated by experimental advances on ultracold atoms coupled to a pumped optical cavity, we propose a scheme for synthesizing and observing the Kondo insulator in Fermi gases trapped in optical lattices. The synthetic Kondo phase arises…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-27 Zhen Zheng , Xu-Bo Zou , Guang-Can Guo

A topological Kondo insulator (TKI) is a strongly-correlated material, where hybridization between the conduction electrons and localized f-electrons gives rise to a crossover from a metallic behavior at high temperatures to a topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Victor Galitski

We propose to realize and observe Chern Kondo insulators in an optical superlattice with laser-assisted $s$ and $p$ orbital hybridization and synthetic gauge field, which can be engineered based on the recent cold atom experiments.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-29 Hua Chen , Xiong-Jun Liu , X. C. Xie

We study the effects of strong electron-electron interactions on the surface of cubic topological Kondo insulators (such as samarium hexaboride, SmB$_6$). Cubic topological Kondo insulators generally support three copies of massless Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-25 Bitan Roy , Johannes Hofmann , Valentin Stanev , Jay D. Sau , Victor Galitski

We study the effect of interactions on the properties of a model 2D topological Kondo insulator phase. Loosely motivated by recent proposals where graphene is hybridized with impurity bands from heavy adatoms with partially filled d-shells,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Jason Iaconis , Leon Balents

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter in which surface states residing in the bulk insulating gap are protected by time-reversal symmetry. When a proper kind of antiferromagnetic long range order is established in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jing Wang , Rundong Li , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Xiao-Liang Qi

The hallmark property of two-dimensional topological materials is the incredible robustness of the quantized Hall conductivity to disorder. That robustness arises from the fact that in the topological band gap, transport can occur only…

By using an extended mean-field theory, we study the phase diagram of the topological Kondo lattice model on the honeycomb lattice at half-filling in which the conduction electrons are described by the Haldane model. Besides the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-24 Yin Zhong , Yu-Feng Wang , Yong-Qiang Wang , Hong-Gang Luo

Recent advances in delicate topology have expanded the classification of topological bands, but its presence in solid-state materials remains elusive. Here we show that delicate topology naturally emerges in the Luttinger-Kohn model that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Penghao Zhu , Rui-Xing Zhang

The intense theoretical and experimental interest in topological insulators and semimetals has established band structure topology as a fundamental material property. Consequently, identifying band topologies has become an important, but…

An exact-diagonalization technique on small clusters is used to study the dynamics of the one-dimensional symmetric Anderson lattice model. Our calculated excitation spectra reproduce key features expected for an infinite Kondo lattice such…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Tsutsui , Y. Ohta , R. Eder , S. Maekawa , E. Dagotto , J. Riera

We consider a two dimensional Kondo lattice model with exchange J and hopping t in which three out of four impurity spins are removed in a regular way. At the particle-hole symmetric point the model may be studied with auxiliary field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 F. F. Assaad

We study the 2D Kondo insulators in a uniform magnetic field using quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the particle-hole symmetric Kondo lattice model and a mean field analysis of the Periodic Anderson model. We find that the field induces a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Milat , F. F. Assaad , M. Sigrist

We study one-dimensional Kondo Lattices (KL) which consist of itinerant electrons interacting with Kondo impurities (KI) - localized quantum magnetic moments. We focus on KL with isotropic exchange interaction between electrons and KI and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-16 A. M. Tsvelik , O. M. Yevtushenko

We demonstrate theoretically an atomic liquid phase that supports topologically nontrivial electronic structure. A minimum two-orbital model of liquid topological insulator in two dimensions is constructed within the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Gia-Wei Chern

We consider a magnetic impurity deposited on the surface of a strong topological insulator and interacting with the surface modes by a Kondo exchange interaction. Taking into account the warping of the Fermi line of the surface modes, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-10 Edmond Orignac , Sébastien Burdin

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Kondo lattices are one of the classic models of strongly correlated systems where despite a long history, a full understanding of the excitation spectra is still not available. Here we propose that recent progress in engineering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-21 Ethan Huecker , Yashar Komijani

The topological Anderson and Mott insulators are two phases that have so far been separately and widely explored beyond topological band insulators. Here we combine the two seemingly different topological phases into a system of spin-1/2…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-10 Guo-Qing Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang , Ling-Feng Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We study second-order topological insulators and semimetals characterized by chiral symmetry. We investigate topological phase transitions of a model for construction of the two-dimensional second-order topological insulators protected only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Ryo Okugawa , Shin Hayashi , Takeshi Nakanishi