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We present the results of a systematic investigation of the magnetic properties of the three-dimensional Kondo topological insulator SmB6 using magnetization and muon-spin relaxation/rotation (muSR) measurements. The muSR measurements…

The Kondo insulator SmB6 has long been known to exhibit low temperature (T < 10K) transport anomaly and has recently attracted attention as a new topological insulator candidate. By combining low-temperature and high energy-momentum…

Bulk and surface state contributions to the electrical resistance of single-crystal samples of the topological Kondo insulator compound SmB6 are investigated as a function of crystal thickness and surface charge density, the latter tuned by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-06 Paul Syers , Dohun Kim , Michael S. Fuhrer , Johnpierre Paglione

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 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

SmB6 is a promising candidate for topological Kondo insulator. In this letter, we report ultrafast carrier dynamics of SmB6. Two characteristic temperatures: T1=100 K and T2= 20 K are observed. T1 corresponds to the opening of the f-d…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-15 Sanjay Adhikari , Yanjun Ma , Zachary Fisk , Jing Xia , Chang-Beom Eom , Cheng Cen

Samarium hexaboride (SmB6) has recently been considered to be a topological Kondo insulator (TKI), the first strongly correlated electron system to exhibit topological surface conduction states. In this contribution, results of electrical…

A thermodynamic study of the Kondo insulator SmB$_6$ is pursued to elucidate the well-known anomalous low-temperature electronic-like specific heat contribution conjectured to arise from metallic surface states. A general thermodynamic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-13 J. J. van den Broeke , S. N. Kempkes , A. Quelle , C. Morais Smith

Kondo insulator samarium hexaboride (SmB6) has been intensely studied in recent years as a potential candidate of a strongly correlated topological insulator. One of the most exciting phenomena observed in SmB6 is the clear quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-26 Z. Xiang , B. Lawson , T. Asaba , C. Tinsman , Lu Chen , C. Shang , X. H. Chen , Lu Li

The Kondo insulator SmB6 has long been known to exhibit low temperature transport anomalies whose origin is of great interest. Here we uniquely access the surface electronic structure of the anomalous transport regime by combining…

The true topological nature of the Kondo insulator SmB$_6$ remains to be unveiled. Our previous tunneling study not only found evidence for the existence of surface Dirac fermions, but it also uncovered that they inherently interact with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-16 W. K. Park , J. A. Sittler , L. H. Greene , W. T. Fuhrman , J. R. Chamorro , S. M. Koohpayeh , W. A. Phelan , T. M. McQueen

We use scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate the (001) surface of cleaved SmB6 Kondo insulator. Variable temperature dI/dV spectroscopy up to 60 K reveals a gap-like density of state suppression around the Fermi level, which is due…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-02 Wei Ruan , Cun Ye , Minghua Guo , Fei Chen , Xianhui Chen , Guangming Zhang , Yayu Wang

The recent rekindling of interest in the mixed valent Kondo insulator SmB$_{6}$ as candidate for a first correlated topological insulator has resulted in a wealth of new experimental observations. In particular, angle-resolved photoemission…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-21 A. Tytarenko , K. Nakatsukasa , Y. K. Huang , S. Johnston , E. van Heumen

In this study, we report the first results of the high-pressure Hall coefficient (RH) measurements in the putative topological Kondo insulator SmB6 up to 37 GPa. Below 10 GPa, our data reveal that RH(T) exhibits a prominent peak upon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-25 Yazhou Zhou , Priscila F. S. Rosa , Jing Guo , Shu Cai , Rong Yu , Sheng Jiang , Ke Yang , Aiguo Li , Qimiao Si , Qi Wu , Zachary Fisk , Liling Sun

Topological insulators, with metallic boundary states protected against time-reversal-invariant perturbations, are a promising avenue for realizing exotic quantum states of matter including various excitations of collective modes predicted…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-04 Yasuyuki Nakajima , Paul Syers , Xiangfeng Wang , Renxiong Wang , Johnpierre Paglione

We study how the non-Fermi-liquid two-phase state reveals itself in transport properties of high-mobility Si-MOSFETs. We have found features in zero-field transport, magnetotransport, and thermodynamic spin magnetization in a 2D correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-28 L. A. Morgun , A. Yu. Kuntsevich , V. M. Pudalov

The Kondo insulator SmB6 is purported to develop into a robust topological insulator at low temperature. Yet there are several puzzling and unexplained physical properties of the insulating bulk. It has been proposed that bulk spin excitons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-20 K. Akintola , A. Pal , S. R. Dunsiger , A. C. Y. Fang , M. Potma , S. R. Saha , X. F. Wang , J. Paglione , J. E. Sonier

Temperature dependence of the electronic structure of SmB6 is studied by high-resolution ARPES down to 1 K. We demonstrate that there is no essential difference for the dispersions of the surface states below and above the resistivity…

Motivated by the high sensitivity to Fermi surface topology and scattering mechanisms in magneto-thermoelectric transport, we have measured the thermopower and Nernst effect on the (011)-plane of the proposed topological Kondo insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-26 Yongkang Luo , Hua Chen , Jianhui Dai , Zhu-an Xu , J. D. Thompson

Low-temperature ($T$) thermodynamic properties in magnetic fields ($B$) of the quasi-Kagome antiferromagnet CePdAl ($T_{\rm N}\sim$ 2.7 K) were studied by means of magnetization and specific-heat $C(T,B)$ measurements. The unusual magnetic…