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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

We investigate the groundstate properties of a recently proposed model for a topological Kondo insulator in one dimension (i.e., the $p$-wave Kondo-Heisenberg lattice model) by means of the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-02 Alejandro Mezio , Alejandro M. Lobos , Ariel O. Dobry , Claudio J. Gazza

In this Book Chapter (invited) we briefly review the basic concepts defining topological insulators and focus on elaborating on the key experimental results that revealed and established their symmetry protected (SPT) topological nature. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , Madhab Neupane

The Kondo insulator compound SmB6 has emerged as a strong candidate for the realization of a topologically nontrivial state in a strongly correlated system, a topological Kondo insulator, which can be a novel platform for investigating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Jehyun Kim , Chaun Jang , Xiangfeng Wang , Johnpierre Paglione , Seokmin Hong , Dohun Kim

In this work we investigate the effects of the short range magnetic correlations on the gap opening of the topological Kondo insulators. We consider an additional narrow band to the otherwise completely localized f-electrons, by adding a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-13 E. Ramos , R. Franco , J. Silva-Valencia , M. E. Foglio , M. S. Figueira

Three dimensional (3D) topological insulators are novel states of quantum matter that feature spin-momentum locked helical Dirac fermions on their surfaces and hold promise to open new vistas in spintronics, quantum computing and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-30 Su-Yang Xu , L. A. Wray , Y. Xia , R. Shankar , A. Petersen , A. Fedorov , H. Lin , A. Bansil , Y. S. Hor , D. Grauer , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

We demonstrate that interacting electrons in AB-stacked $\mathrm{MoTe}_2/\mathrm{WSe}_2$ realize a topological Kondo insulator at hole filling $\nu=2$ per moir\'e unit cell. In the presence of only local correlations, a symmetry of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-14 Andreas Gleis , Kevin Lucht , Po-Jui Chen , Daniele Guerci , Andrew J Millis , J. H. Pixley

We have simulated a half-filled $1D$ $p$-wave periodic Anderson model with numerically exact projector quantum Monte Carlo technique, and the system is indeed located in the Haldane-like state as detected in previous works on the $p$-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-01 Yin Zhong , Yu Liu , Hong-Gang Luo

We propose a $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ classification of Abelian time-reversal fractional topological insulators in terms of the composite fermions picture. We consider the standard toy model where spin up and down electrons are subjected to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-24 Dario Ferraro , Giovanni Viola

Topological materials have potential applications for quantum technologies. Non-interacting topological materials, such as e.g., topological insulators and superconductors, are classified by means of fundamental symmetry classes. It is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 Titas Chanda , Rebecca Kraus , Giovanna Morigi , Jakub Zakrzewski

Recent theoretical calculations and experimental results suggest that the strongly correlated material SmB$_{6}$ may be a realization of a topological Kondo insulator. We have performed an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-11 N. Xu , X. Shi , P. K. Biswas , C. E. Matt , R. S. Dhaka , Y. Huang , N. C. Plumb , M. Radovic , J. H. Dil , E. Pomjakushina , A. Amato , Z. Salman , D. McK. Paul , J. Mesot , H. Ding , M. Shi

SmB6 is a strongly correlated material that has been attributed as a topological insulator and a Kondo insulator. Recent studies have found the topological surface states and low temperature insulating character to be profoundly robust…

A fascinating type of symmetry-protected topological states of matter are topological Kondo insulators, where insulating behavior arises from Kondo screening of localized moments via conduction electrons, and non-trivial topology emerges…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-13 Pier Paolo Baruselli , Matthias Vojta

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

Spin-triplet $p$-wave superconductors are promising candidates for topological superconductors. They have been proposed in various heterostructures where a material with strong spin-orbit interaction is coupled to a conventional $s$-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-03 Yung-Yeh Chang , Khoe Van Nguyen , Kuang-Lung Chen , Yen-Wen Lu , Chung-Yu Mou , Chung-Hou Chung

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

The Kondo effect, a hallmark of many-body physics, emerges from the antiferromagnetic coupling between localized spins and conduction fermions, leading to a correlated many-body singlet state. Here we propose to use the mixed-dimensional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-11 Hannah Lange , Eugene Demler , Jan von Delft , Annabelle Bohrdt , Fabian Grusdt

SmB6 has recently been predicted to be a Topological Kondo Insulator, the first strongly correlated heavy fermion material to exhibit topological surface states. High quality crystals are necessary to investigate the topological properties…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-31 M. Ciomaga Hatnean , M. R. Lees , D. McK. Paul , G. Balakrishnan

Kondo insulating materials lie outside the usual dichotomy of weakly versus correlated - band versus Mott - insulators. They are metallic at high temperatures but resemble band insulators at low temperatures because of the opening of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 Johannes Knolle , Nigel R. Cooper

4$f$ electron-based topological Kondo insulators have long been researched for their potential to conduct electric current via protected surface states, while simultaneously exhibiting unusually robust insulating behavior in their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-07 Yun Suk Eo , Keenan Avers , Jarryd A. Horn , Hyeok Yoon , Shanta Saha , Alonso Suarez , Michael S. Fuhrer , Johnpierre Paglione