EVIDENCE THAT THE MIXED VALENCE COMPOUND SMB6 IS A TOPOLOGICAL INSULATOR

Posted in Journal Articles on December 26, 2012 at 7:44 pm by JCCMP

1. Discovery of the First Topological Kondo Insulator: SmB6.
Authors: S. Wolgast, C. Kurdak, K. Sun, J. W. Allen, D-J. Kim and Z. Fisk.
ArXiv.org/1211.5104.

2. Robust Surface Hall Effect and Non-local Transport in SmB6: Indication for an ideal Topological Insulator.
Authors: J. Botimer, D-J. Kim, S. Thomas, T. Grant, Z. Fisk and X. Jia.
ArXiv.org/1211.6769.

3. Topological Kondo Insulators.
Authors: Maxim Dzero, Kai Sun, Victor Galitski, and Piers Coleman.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 106408 (2010).

Recommended and a Commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2012_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2012_03

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