Recently, topological insulator materials have been theoretically predicted and
experimentally observed in both 2D and 3D systems. We first review the basic models and …

Publisher Summary Skutterudite is the name of a CoAs 3-based mineral that was first
extensively mined as a source of cobalt and nickel. This chapter discusses the structural …

Superconductivity has been observed in PrOs 4 Sb 12 at TC= 1.85 K and appears to involve
heavy fermion quasiparticles with an effective mass m*∼ 50 me as inferred from the jump in …

We report the magnetic field dependence of the specific-heat C of single crystals of the first
Pr-based heavy-fermion superconductor Pr⁡ O s 4 S b 12. The variation of C at low …

We have investigated the de Haas–van Alphen effect in the Pr-based heavy-fermion
superconductor PrOs 4 Sb 12. The topology of Fermi surface is close to the reference …

The filled skutterudite compound Sm Os 4 Sb 12 was prepared in single-crystal form and
characterized using x-ray diffraction, specific-heat, electrical resistivity, and magnetization …

Using a full-relativistic version of the full-potential augmented plane wave plus local orbitals
(FP-APW+ lo) method within the local density approximation (LDA), we have studied the …

We investigated the magnetic phase diagram of the first Pr-based heavy fermion
superconductor PrOs 4 Sb 12 by means of high-resolution dc magnetization measurements …

The superconducting properties of two β-pyrochlore oxides, CsOs 2 O 6 and RbOs 2 O 6,
are studied by thermodynamic and transport measurements using high-quality single …

Some filled skutterudite compounds have recently been found to exhibit very interesting
properties: a metal–insulator transition (PrRu 4 P 12), an antiferroquadrupole ordering and …