Fragility of the Kondo insulating gap against disorder: Relevance to recent puzzles in topological Kondo insulators

Kondo insulators are strongly correlated systems in which a clean insulating gap emerges only at very low temperature due to many-body effects involving localized f electrons. However, certain Kondo insulators, like SmB_{6} and Ce_{3}Bi_{4}Pt_{3}, display metallic behaviors at extremely low temperat...

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Main Authors: Sudeshna Sen, N. S. Vidhyadhiraja, Eduardo Miranda, Vladimir Dobrosavljević, Wei Ku
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-09-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033370