Lai, H.-H., Grefe, S. E., Paschen, S., & Si, Q. (2018). Weyl-Kondo semimetal in heavy-fermion systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(1), 93–97. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715851115
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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ISSN:
0027-8424
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Date (published):
2018
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Number of Pages:
5
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Publisher:
National Academy of Sciences
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Peer reviewed:
Yes
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Keywords:
Multidisciplinary
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Abstract:
Insulating states can be topologically nontrivial, a well-established notion that is exemplified by the quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. By contrast, topological metals have not been experimentally evidenced until recently. In systems with strong correlations, they have yet to be identified. Heavy-fermion semimetals are a prototype of strongly correlated systems and, given their strong spin-orbit coupling, present a natural setting to make progress. Here, we advance a Weyl–Kondo semimetal phase in a periodic Anderson model on a noncentrosymmetric lattice. The quasiparticles near the Weyl nodes develop out of the Kondo effect, as do the surface states that feature Fermi arcs. We determine the key signatures of this phase, which are realized in the heavy-fermion semimetal Ce3Bi4Pd3. Our findings provide the much-needed theoretical foundation for the experimental search of topological metals with strong correlations and open up an avenue for systematic studies of such quantum phases that naturally entangle multiple degrees of freedom.
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Research Areas:
Quantum Many-Body Systems: 60% Special and Engineering Materials: 40%