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At high temperatures the localized f-electrons form independent local magnetic moments. According to the Kondo effect, the dc-resistivity of Kondo insulators shows a logarithmic temperature-dependence. At low temperatures, the local magnetic moments are screened by the sea of conduction electrons,
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and CeNiSn. They called the materials Kondo insulators, showing Kondo lattice behavior near room temperature, but becoming semiconducting with very small energy gaps (a few Kelvin to a few tens of Kelvin) when decreasing the temperature.
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down to 0.35 K and a change from metallic to insulating behavior in the resistivity measurement with decreasing temperature. They interpreted this phenomenon as a change of the electronic configuration of Sm.
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Hasan, M. Zahid; Xu, Su-Yang; Neupane, Madhab (2015), "Topological Insulators, Topological Dirac semimetals, Topological Crystalline Insulators, and Topological Kondo Insulators",
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Hybridization and forming of an indirect energy (hybridization) gap due to the coherent Kondo screening of the local moments by the sea of conduction electrons.
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experiments provided direct imaging of band-structure, hybridization and flat band topology in Kondo insulators and related compounds.
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Menth, A.; Buehler, E.; Geballe, T. H. (17 February 1969). "Magnetic and Semiconducting Properties of SmB
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In 1992, Gabriel Aeppli and Zachary Fisk found a descriptive way to explain the physical properties of Ce
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of localized electrons (mostly f-electrons) with conduction electrons, a correlation effect known as the
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In case of Kondo insulators the Fermi level (chemical potential) is located in the hybridization gap.
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lying in the gap, whereas in heavy fermion materials the chemical potential is located in the
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forming a so-called Kondo resonance. The interaction of the conduction band with the
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Coleman, P. (2007). "Heavy Fermions: Electrons at the edge of magnetism".
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Dzero, Maxim; Xia, Jing; Galitski, Victor; Coleman, Piers (2016-03-10).
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Strongly correlated system with a narrow band gap at low temperatures
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Riseborough, Peter S. (2000). "Heavy fermion semiconductors".
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Dispersion relation of conduction band and localized states.
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Handbook of magnetism and advanced magnetic materials
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solid-state physics
Kondo
insulators
semiconductors
heavy fermion
band gap
chemical potential
conduction band
hybridization
Kondo effect
direct or indirect
SmB6
SmB6
f-orbitals
angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
"Topological Kondo Insulators"
arXiv
1506.05635
Bibcode
2016ARCMP...7..249D
doi
10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031214-014749
ISSN
1947-5454
S2CID
15794370
Bibcode

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