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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 60: Correlated Electrons: f-Electron Systems

TT 60.4: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 23. März 2017, 10:15–10:30, HSZ 201

Excitons in topological Kondo insulators - theory of thermodynamic and transport anomalies in SmB₆ — •Johannes Knolle and Nigel R. Cooper — TCM Cavendish Laboratory, Univer- sity of Cambridge, UK

Kondo insulating materials lie outside the usual dichotomy of weakly versus correlated - band versus Mott - insulators. They are metallic at high temperatures but resemble band insulators at low temperatures because of the opening of an interaction induced band gap. The first discovered Kondo insulator (KI) SmB₆ has been predicted to form a topological KI (TKI) which mimics a topological insulator at low temperatures. However, since its discovery thermodynamic and transport anomalies have been observed that have defied a theoretical explanation. Enigmatic signatures of collective modes inside the charge gap are seen in specific heat, thermal transport and quantum oscillation experiments in strong magnetic fields. Here, we show that TKIs are susceptible to the formation of excitons and magneto-excitons. These charge neutral composite particles can account for long-standing anomalies in SmB₆ which is crucial for the identification of bulk topological signatures.