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重费米子体系中的反铁磁拓扑绝缘体

Antiferromagnetic topological insulators in heavy-fermion systems

Mohsen Hafez-Torbati

AI总结:

本文基于半填充Kane-Mele-Kondo模型研究重费米子体系中反铁磁拓扑绝缘体的存在条件,发现交替子晶格势可稳定z-AF陈绝缘体和z-AF量子自旋霍尔绝缘体,并比较了不同材料中电荷能隙大小,为高温反铁磁拓扑绝缘体的实验探索提供指导。

摘要:

电子关联与自旋轨道耦合的协同作用可以稳定磁性拓扑绝缘体,这些绝缘体承载着诸如量子反常霍尔态(也称为陈绝缘体,CI)等新颖量子现象。本文研究了重费米子材料中具有反铁磁(AF)序的磁性拓扑绝缘体的存在性。我们的分析基于半填充的Kane-Mele-Kondo(KMK)模型,其中反铁磁Kondo相互作用$J_{\ m K}$将巡游电子自旋与每个格点上的$S=1/2$局域自旋耦合起来。我们考虑了Néel反铁磁序,其局域磁化方向不仅垂直于蜂窝平面($z$-AF序),也平行于蜂窝平面($xy$-AF序)。我们证明,在蜂窝结构的两个子晶格之间不存在能量偏移的情况下,系统始终是拓扑平庸的。随着$J_{\ m K}$的增大,系统会从平庸的$xy$-AF绝缘体($xy$-AFI)转变为平庸的Kondo绝缘体(KI)。我们揭示了一个交替子晶格势可以导致$z$-AF陈绝缘体($z$-AFCI)和$z$-AF量子自旋霍尔绝缘体($z$-AFQSHI)的稳定化。我们研究了KMK模型体态以及边缘处的电荷激发。我们系统比较了重费米子材料中AFCI的电荷能隙大小与过渡金属化合物中AFCI的电荷能隙大小。我们的发现可以指导未来在新型体系类别中寻找能够存活到更高温度的反铁磁拓扑绝缘体的实验研究。

英文摘要:

The cooperation of electronic correlation and spin-orbit coupling can stabilize magnetic topological insulators which host novel quantum phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall state also known as Chern insulator (CI). Here, we investigate the existence of magnetic topological insulators with antiferromagnetic (AF) order in heavy-fermion materials. Our analysis relies on the half-filled Kane-Mele-Kondo (KMK) model with the AF Kondo interaction $J_{\rm K}$ coupling the spin of itinerant electrons with a $S=1/2$ localized spin at each lattice site. We consider the Néel AF ordering with the local magnetization not only perpendicular ($z$-AF ordering) but also parallel ($xy$-AF ordering) to the honeycomb plane. We show that in the absence of an energy offset between the two sublattices of the honeycomb structure the system is always topologically trivial. There is a transition from the trivial $xy$-AF insulator ($xy$-AFI) to the trivial Kondo insulator (KI) upon increasing $J_{\rm K}$. We unveil that an alternating sublattice potential can lead to the stabilization of the $z$-AFCI and the $z$-AF quantum spin Hall insulator ($z$-AFQSHI). We address the charge excitations in the bulk as well as at the edges of the KMK model. We provide a systematic comparison between the size of the charge gap in the AFCI in heavy-fermion materials and the size of the charge gap in the AFCI in transition-metal compounds. Our findings can guide the future experimental studies searching for AF topological insulators in novel class of systems which can survive up to higher temperatures.

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