Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2011-09-27
Phys. Rev. B 85, 125128 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
The discovery of topological insulators in non-interacting electron systems has motivated the community to search such topological states of matter in correlated electrons both theoretically and experimentally. In this paper we investigate a phase diagram for a topological Kondo insulating system, where an emergent "spin"-dependent Kondo effect gives rise to an inversion for heavy-fermion bands, responsible for a topological Kondo insulator. Resorting to the U(1) slave-boson mean-field analysis, we uncover an additional phase transition inside the Kondo insulating state in two dimensions, which results from the appearance of the topological Kondo insulator. On the other hand, we observe that the Kondo insulating state is distinguished into three insulating phases in three dimensions, identified with the weak topological Kondo insulator, the strong topological Kondo insulator, and the normal Kondo insulator, respectively, and classified by Z$_{2}$ topological indices. We discuss the possibility of novel quantum criticality between the fractionalized Fermi liquid and the topological Kondo insulator, where the band inversion occurs with the formation of the heavy-fermion band at the same time.
Kim Ki-Seok
Takimoto Tetsuya
Tran Minh-Tien
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