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ЖЭТФ, Том 144, Вып. 3, стр. 574 (Сентябрь 2013)
(Английский перевод - JETP, Vol. 117, No 3, p. 499, September 2013 доступен on-line на www.springer.com )

A NEW EXOTIC STATE IN AN OLD MATERIAL: A TALE OF SmB6
Dzero M., Galitski V.

Поступила в редакцию: 26 Мая 2013

DOI: 10.7868/S0044451013090101

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Dedicated to the memory of Professor Anatoly Larkin} We review current theoretical and experimental efforts to identify a novel class of intermetallic 4f and 5f orbital materials in which strong interactions between itinerant and predominately localized degrees of freedom gives rise to a bulk insulating state at low temperatures, while the surface remains metallic. This effect arises due to inversion of even-parity conduction bands and odd-parity very narrow f-electron bands. The number of band inversions is mainly determined by the crystal symmetry of a material and the corresponding degeneracy of the hybridized f-electron bands. For an odd number of band inversions, the metallic surface states are chiral and therefore remain robust against disorder and time-reversal invariant perturbations. We discuss a number of unresolved theoretical issues specific to topological Kondo insulators and outline experimental challenges in probing the chiral surface states in these materials.

 
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