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表面局域杂质散射作为拓扑近藤绝缘体的探针

Surface Local Impurity Scattering as a Probe for Topological Kondo Insulators

C. -C. Joseph Wang, Jean-Pierre Julien, A. V. Balatsky, Jian-Xin Zhu

AI总结:

本文基于最小轨道Anderson晶格模型研究拓扑近藤绝缘体表面杂质散射,发现强弱拓扑区域在弱散射与幺正散射极限下诱导出不同行为的低能共振态,为扫描隧道谱探测重费米子拓扑性质提供理论依据。

摘要:

在拓扑能带绝缘体被发现后不久,拓扑近藤绝缘体(TKIs)也在理论上被预言。后者重新点燃了人们对近藤绝缘体性质的研究兴趣。目前,SmB$_6$ 中拓扑性质的可实现性已通过多种互补探针进行了深入分析。本文从一个最小轨道的 Anderson 晶格模型出发,探索了近藤绝缘体中的局域电子结构。我们表明,夹在弱拓扑区域两侧的两个强拓扑区域会产生一个单一的 Dirac 锥,该 Dirac 锥位于表面布里渊区的中心或角落附近。我们进一步发现,当单个杂质被放置在表面上时,对于强 TKI 区域,在弱散射极限下会诱导出低能共振态,且共振能级随杂质散射势的强度单调地穿过杂化能隙移动;而对于弱 TKI 区域,低能态只能在幺正散射极限下被诱导出来,此时共振能级普遍地向杂化能隙的中心移动。这些由杂质诱导的低能准粒子将在扫描隧道显微镜/谱学中产生特征性信号,而扫描隧道显微镜/谱学最近已在探测重费米子体系中的奇异性质方面取得了成功。

英文摘要:

Shortly after the discovery of topological band insulators, topological Kondo insulators (TKIs) have also been theoretically predicted. The latter has ignited revival interest in the properties of Kondo insulators. Currently, the feasibility of topological nature in SmB$_6$ has been intensively analyzed by several complementary probes. Here by starting with a minimal-orbital Anderson lattice model, we explore the local electronic structure in a Kondo insulator. We show that the two strong topological regimes sandwiching the weak topological regime give rise to a single Dirac cone, which is located near the center or corner of the surface Brillouin zone. We further find that, when a single impurity is placed on the surface, low-energy resonance states are induced in the weak scattering limit for the strong TKI regimes and the resonance level moves monotonically across the hybridization gap with the strength of impurity scattering potential; while low energy states can only be induced in the unitary scattering limit for the weak TKI regime, where the resonance level moves universally toward the center of the hybridization gap. These impurity-induced low-energy quasiparticles will lead to characteristic signatures in scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy, which has recently found success in probing into exotic properties in heavy fermion systems.

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