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Magnetic and topological transitions in three-dimensional topological Kondo insulator |
| Huan Li1**, Zhi-Yong Wang1, Xiao-Jun Zheng1**, Yu Liu2,3, Yin Zhong4 |
1College of Science, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004
2Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088
3Software Center for High Performance Numerical Simulation, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Beijing 100088
4Center for Interdisciplinary Studies & Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of the MoE, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000
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Huan Li, Zhi-Yong Wang, Xiao-Jun Zheng et al 2018 Chin. Phys. Lett. 35 127501 |
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Abstract Using an extended slave-boson method, we draw a global phase diagram summarizing both magnetic phases and paramagnetic (PM) topological insulators (TIs) in a three-dimensional topological Kondo insulator (TKI). By including electron hopping (EH) up to the third neighbors, we identify four strong TI (STI) phases and two weak TI (WTI) phases. Then, the PM phase diagrams characterizing topological transitions between these TIs are depicted as functions of EH, $f$-electron energy level, and hybridization constant. We also find an insulator–metal transition from an STI phase that has surface Fermi rings and spin textures in qualitative agreement with the TKI candidate SmB$_6$. In the weak hybridization regime, antiferromagnetic (AF) order naturally arises in the phase diagrams. Depending on how the magnetic boundary crosses the PM topological transition lines, AF phases are classified into the AF topological insulator (AFTI) and the non-topological AF insulator, according to their $\mathcal{Z}_2$ indices. In two small regions of parameter space, two distinct topological transition processes between AF phases occur, leading to two types of AFTIs showing distinguishable surface dispersions around their Dirac points.
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Received: 26 September 2018
Published: 23 November 2018
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75.30.Mb
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(Valence fluctuation, Kondo lattice, and heavy-fermion phenomena)
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75.30.Kz
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(Magnetic phase boundaries (including classical and quantum magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.))
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75.70.Tj
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(Spin-orbit effects)
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| Fund: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11764010, 11504061, 11564008, 11704084, and 11704166, the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province under Grant Nos 2017GXNSFAA198169 and 2017GXNSFBA198115, and the SPC-Lab Research Fund under Grant No XKFZ201605. |
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