Quantum phase transition and destruction of Kondo effect in pressurized SmB6
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics and Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Renmin Univ. of China, Beijing (China); Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai (China). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing (China)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai (China). Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facilities, Shanghai Inst. of Applied Physics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics and Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics; Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics and Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics; Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics and Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics; Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
SmB6 has been a well-known Kondo insulator for decades, but recently attracts extensive new attention as a candidate topological system. Studying SmB6 under pressure provides an opportunity to acquire the much-needed understanding about the effect of electron correlations on both the metallic surface state and bulk insulating state. Here we do so by studying the evolution of two transport gaps (low temperature gap El and high temperature gap Eh) associated with the Kondo effect by measuring the electrical resistivity under high pressure and low temperature (0.3 K) conditions. We associate the gaps with the bulk Kondo hybridization, and from their evolution with pressure we demonstrate an insulator-to-metal transition at ~4 GPa. At the transition pressure, a large change in the Hall number and a divergence tendency of the electron-electron scattering coefficient provide evidence for a destruction of the Kondo entanglement in the ground state. In conclusion, our results raise the new prospect for studying topological electronic states in quantum critical materials settings.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; US Army Research Office (ARO); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396; 2013/2018-0; W911NF-14-1-0525; C-1411
- OSTI ID:
- 1431072
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1495505
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-17-30508
- Journal Information:
- Science Bulletin, Vol. 62, Issue 21; ISSN 2095-9273
- Publisher:
- Elsevier; Science China PressCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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