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Heavy-fermion systems: Topological Kondo Insulator SmB6
This part will discuss primarily the theory of topological Kondo insulators. Surprisingly, the phenomenology is too large to cover here! The “topological insulator revolution” was indirectly responsible for solving a four decade long mystery of resistivity saturation of SmB6 below 4 K. This part would serve as a nice review of topological band theory as well as offer a case study from the jungle of heavy-fermion materials.
With the permission of the presenter, the slides for this journal club meeting can be found in the PDF file here. The PDF slides are only in the reading mode; they do not contain any animations. If you wish to get the original PowerPoint slides then please contact the presenter. If you notice any typos or scientific inaccuracies in the slides, I would be grateful if you could bring them to my attention by sending me an email.