Non-Kondo-like electronic structure in the correlated rare-earth hexaboride
- Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
- National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan); Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
- Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
Here, we present angle-resolved photoemission studies on the rare-earth-hexaboride YbB6, which has recently been predicted to be a topological Kondo insulator. Our data do not agree with the prediction and instead show that YbB6 exhibits a novel topological insulator state in the absence of a Kondo mechanism. We find that the Fermi level electronic structure of YbB6 has three 2D Dirac cone like surface states enclosing the Kramers’s points, while the f orbital that would be relevant for the Kondo mechanism is ~1 eV below the Fermi level. Our first-principles calculation shows that the topological state that we observe in YbB6 is due to an inversion between Yb d and B p bands. These experimental and theoretical results provide a new approach for realizing novel correlated topological insulator states in rare-earth materials.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1304823
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1181380
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-14-23024; PRLTAO
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 1; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Web of Science
Similar Records
Bulk Rotational Symmetry Breaking in Kondo Insulator
Hall Anomaly, Quantum Oscillations and Possible Lifshitz Transitions in Kondo Insulator : Evidence for Unconventional Charge Transport