Kondo Hybridization and the Origin of Metallic States at the (001) Surface of SmB_{6}

SmB_{6}, a well-known Kondo insulator, has been proposed to be an ideal topological insulator with states of topological character located in a clean, bulk electronic gap, namely, the Kondo-hybridization gap. Since the Kondo gap arises from many-body electronic correlations, SmB_{6} would be placed...

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Main Authors: E. Frantzeskakis, N. de Jong, B. Zwartsenberg, Y. K. Huang, Y. Pan, X. Zhang, J. X. Zhang, F. X. Zhang, L. H. Bao, O. Tegus, A. Varykhalov, A. de Visser, M. S. Golden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2013-12-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041024