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 …

Hybridization, Inter-Ion Correlation, and Surface States in the Kondo Insulator

X Zhang, NP Butch, P Syers, S Ziemak, RL Greene… - Physical Review X, 2013 - APS
As an exemplary Kondo insulator, SmB 6 has been studied for several decades. However,
direct evidence for the development of the Kondo coherent state and for the evolution of the …

Electron spin resonance in strongly correlated metals

SV Demishev - Applied Magnetic Resonance, 2020 - Springer
Modern technique of electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements and data analysis in
strongly correlated metals, which allows finding the full set of spectroscopic parameters …

Samarium hexaboride is a trivial surface conductor

P Hlawenka, K Siemensmeyer, E Weschke… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
SmB6 is predicted to be the first member of the intersection of topological insulators and
Kondo insulators, strongly correlated materials in which the Fermi level lies in the gap of a …

Interaction Driven Subgap Spin Exciton in the Kondo Insulator

WT Fuhrman, J Leiner, P Nikolić, GE Granroth… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Using inelastic neutron scattering, we map a 14 meV coherent resonant mode in the
topological Kondo insulator SmB 6 and describe its relation to the low energy insulating …

Emergence of a Coherent In-Gap State in the Kondo Insulator Revealed by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

W Ruan, C Ye, M Guo, F Chen, X Chen, GM Zhang… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We use scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate the (001) surface of a cleaved SmB 6
Kondo insulator. Variable temperature d I/d V spectroscopy up to 60 K reveals a gaplike …

Low-energy excitations of the correlation-gap insulator :ffA light-scattering study

P Nyhus, SL Cooper, Z Fisk, J Sarrao - Physical Review B, 1997 - APS
We present the results of Raman scattering studies of single-crystal SmB 6 for temperatures
down to 4 K and in magnetic fields up to 8 T. At temperatures below T∼ 50tK the electronic …

High-Pressure Ground State of : Electronic Conduction and Long Range Magnetic Order

A Barla, J Derr, JP Sanchez, B Salce, G Lapertot… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
High-pressure Sm 149 nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation and specific heat
measurements have been performed on the intermediate valent Kondo insulator SmB 6. The …

Intragap states in

NE Sluchanko, VV Ġlushkov, BP Gorshunov… - Physical Review B, 2000 - APS
The results of wide-range measurements of the low-frequency, rf, and microwave
conductivity in the typical mixed-valent narrow-gap semiconductor samarium hexaboride are …

Pressure-induced Fermi-liquid behavior in the Kondo insulator Possible transition through a quantum critical point

S Gabáni, E Bauer, S Berger, K Flachbart, Y Paderno… - Physical Review B, 2003 - APS
We have investigated the electrical resistivity of the intermediate valence narrow-gap
semiconductor SmB 6 at temperatures below 80 K and under pressure in the range between …