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Title: Fermi surface in the absence of a Fermi liquid in the Kondo insulator SmB6

Journal Article · · Nature Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4295· OSTI ID:1441312
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  1. Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Cavendish Lab.
  2. Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  3. National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab), Tallahassee, FL (United States)
  4. Univ. of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
  5. Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa (Japan). Inst. for Solid State Physics
  6. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States). Dept. of Physics
  7. Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Cavendish Lab.; Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
  8. Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Cavendish Lab.; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  9. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  10. Osaka Univ., Toyonaka (Japan). Dept. of Chemistry
  11. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev (Ukraine)

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab); Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Univ. of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom); Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada); Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa (Japan); Osaka Univ., Toyonaka (Japan)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Royal Society (United Kingdom); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); European Research Council (ERC); Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (Japan); USDOE Office of Science (SC). Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396; SC0002613; DMR-1157490; EP/P024947/1; EP/M028771/1; EP/K012894/1; EP/L014963/1; 337425; 15H05883; 15H03682; JP16K05447; 89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1441312
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1764961
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-29404; LA-UR-18-28478; TRN: US1900892
Journal Information:
Nature Physics, Vol. 14, Issue 2; ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group (NPG)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 69 works
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Mixed-valence insulators with neutral Fermi surfaces journal May 2018
Non-trivial surface states of samarium hexaboride at the (111) surface journal May 2019
de Haas-van Alphen effect of correlated Dirac states in kagome metal Fe3Sn2 journal October 2019
Magnetic field-tuned Fermi liquid in a Kondo insulator journal December 2019
Anomalous quantum oscillations and evidence for a non-trivial Berry phase in SmSb journal May 2019
Unconventional thermal metallic state of charge-neutral fermions in an insulator journal July 2019
Observation of highly stable and symmetric lanthanide octa-boron inverse sandwich complexes journal July 2018
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Anomalous Conductance Oscillations in the Hybridization Gap of InAs / GaSb Quantum Wells journal September 2019
Quantum Oscillation from In-gap States and non-Hermitian Landau Level Problem text January 2018
Fermi surface, possible unconventional fermions, and unusually robust resistive critical fields in the chiral-structured superconductor AuBe text January 2018
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