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Strongly correlated analogues of topological insulators have been explored in systems with purely on-site symmetries, such as time-reversal or charge conservation. Here, we use recently developed tensor network tools to study a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Brayden Ware , Itamar Kimchi , S. A. Parameswaran , Bela Bauer

Kondo insulators combine strong electronic correlations with spin orbit coupling and thereby provide a potential realization of correlated topological insulators. We present model calculations which allow us to study the onset of bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-28 Jan Werner , Fakher F. Assaad

We study the Kondo lattice model with the Heisenberg-type RKKY-exchange coupling among localized f-spins in the presence of a magnetic field. By means of an extended dynamical mean field theory combined with the non-crossing approximation,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Takuma Ohashi , Sei-ichiro Suga , Norio Kawakami

The ground state of the Kondo chain is calculated taking into account the formation of local singlet states of electrons and moments. Singlets are entangled local states of electrons and moments arranged chaotically and varying in time.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-09 Igor N. Karnaukhov

We investigate the ground-state of a p-wave Kondo-Heisenberg model introduced by Alexandrov and Coleman with an Ising-type anisotropy in the Kondo interaction and correlated conduction electrons. Our aim is to understand how they affect the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-07 I. Hagymasi , O. Legeza

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

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-21 Victor Alexandrov , Maxim Dzero , Piers Coleman

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

This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental work on a new class of topological material - topological Kondo insulators, which develop through the interplay of strong correlations and spin-orbit interactions. The history of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Maxim Dzero , Jing Xia , Victor Galitski , Piers Coleman

Our understanding of topological insulators is based on an underlying crystalline lattice where the local electronic degrees of freedom at different sites hybridize with each other in ways that produce nontrivial band topology, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Adhip Agarwala , Vijay B. Shenoy

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

Conventional theories for Mott insulators involve well-localized electronic orbitals. This picture fails in the presence of topological obstructions in Chern bands which prevent the formation of exponentially localized orbitals and are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Brandon Monsen , Martin Claassen

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

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

In order to better understand Kondo insulators, we have studied both the symmetric and asymmetric Anderson lattices at half-filling in one dimension using the density matrix formulation of the numerical renormalization group. We have…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Guerrero , Clare C. Yu

The Kondo insulator (KI) is studyed in the frameworrk of one dimensional models of Kondo and symmentic Anderson lattices at half filling. The consistent application of the mean field approach and the solution using the Bethe ansatz made it…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-20 Igor N. Karnaukhov

Properties of a nonmagnetic impurity in Kondo insulators are investigated by considering a one-dimensional Kondo lattice model with depletion of a localized spin. The ground-state phase diagram determined by the Lanczos method shows that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Isao Maruyama , Naokazu Shibata , Kazuo Ueda

Topological Kondo insulators (TKIs) are new type of symmetry-protected topological insulators, which develop through the interplay of strong correlations and spin-orbit interactions. In these materials, the bulk is a perfect band insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Soroush Arabi

Electronic flat bands represent a paradigmatic platform to realize strongly correlated matter due to their associated divergent density of states. In common instances, including electron-electron interactions leads to magnetic instabilities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-15 Pramod Kumar , Guangze Chen , J. L. Lado

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