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旧材料中的新奇异状态:六硼化钐的故事

A new exotic state in an old material: A tale of Samarium Hexaboride

Maxim Dzero, Victor Galitski

摘要:

我们回顾目前的理论和实验努力,以确定一类新的金属间化合物的4f和5f轨道材料,其中巡回和主要本地化的自由度之间的强相互作用引起在低温下的体绝缘状态,而表面仍然是金属。这种效应是由于偶宇称导带和奇宇称非常窄的f电子带的反转而产生的。带反转的数目主要由材料的晶体对称性和杂化f电子带的相应简并度决定。对于奇数个能带反转,金属表面态是手征的,因此对无序和时间反转不变扰动保持鲁棒性。我们讨论了一些尚未解决的拓扑近藤绝缘体的理论问题,并概述了在这些材料中探测手性表面态的实验挑战。

英文摘要:

We review current theoretical and experimental efforts to identify a novel class of intermetallic 4f and 5f orbital materials in which strong interactions between itinerant and predominately localized degrees of freedom gives rise to a bulk insulating state at low temperatures, while the surface remains metallic. This effect arises due to inversion of even parity conduction bands and odd parity very narrow f-electron bands. The number of band inversions is mainly determined by the crystal symmetry of a material and the corresponding degeneracy of the hybridized f-electron bands. For odd number of band inversions the metallic surface states are chiral and therefore remain robust against disorder and time-reversal invariant perturbations. We discuss a number of unresolved theoretical issues specific to topological Kondo insulators and outline experimental challenges in probing the chiral surface states in these materials.

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