Emergent mystery in the Kondo insulator samarium hexaboride

L Li, K Sun, C Kurdak, JW Allen - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Samarium hexaboride (SmB6) is an example of a Kondo insulator, in which strong electron
correlations cause a band gap to open. SmB6 hosts both a bulk insulating state and a …

Charge-neutral electronic excitations in quantum insulators

S Wu, LM Schoop, I Sodemann, R Moessner, RJ Cava… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Experiments on quantum materials have uncovered many interesting quantum phases
ranging from superconductivity to a variety of topological quantum matter including the …

Quantum oscillation from in-gap states and a non-Hermitian Landau level problem

H Shen, L Fu - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Motivated by recent experiments on Kondo insulators, we theoretically study quantum
oscillations from disorder-induced in-gap states in small-gap insulators. By solving a non …

Preserving microbial diversity

MGD Bello, R Knight, JA Gilbert, MJ Blaser - Science, 2018 - science.org
Since World War II, there have been dramatic increases in metabolic, immune, and cognitive
diseases, including obesity, diabetes, asthma, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, and …

Incoherent transport across the strange-metal regime of overdoped cuprates

J Ayres, M Berben, M Čulo, YT Hsu, E van Heumen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Strange metals possess highly unconventional electrical properties, such as a linear-in-
temperature resistivity,,,,–, an inverse Hall angle that varies as temperature squared,–and a …

Unconventional magnetic oscillations in a kagome Mott insulator

G Zheng, Y Zhu, KW Chen, B Kang, D Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
In metals, electrons in a magnetic field undergo cyclotron motion, leading to oscillations in
physical properties called quantum oscillations. This phenomenon has never been seen in a …

Landau quantization and highly mobile fermions in an insulator

P Wang, G Yu, Y Jia, M Onyszczak, FA Cevallos, S Lei… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
In strongly correlated materials, quasiparticle excitations can carry fractional quantum
numbers. An intriguing possibility is the formation of fractionalized, charge-neutral fermions …

Dmft reveals the non-hermitian topology and fermi arcs in heavy-fermion systems

Y Nagai, Y Qi, H Isobe, V Kozii, L Fu - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
When a strongly correlated system supports well-defined quasiparticles, it allows for an
elegant one-body effective description within the non-Hermitian topological theory. While the …

Survival of itinerant excitations and quantum spin state transitions in YbMgGaO4 with chemical disorder

X Rao, G Hussain, Q Huang, WJ Chu, N Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A recent focus of quantum spin liquid (QSL) studies is how disorder/randomness in a QSL
candidate affects its true magnetic ground state. The ultimate question is whether the QSL …

Controllable strain-driven topological phase transition and dominant surface-state transport in HfTe5

J Liu, Y Zhou, S Yepez Rodriguez, MA Delmont… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The fine-tuning of topologically protected states in quantum materials holds great promise
for novel electronic devices. However, there are limited methods that allow for the controlled …