TY - JOUR
T1 - Topological insulators in filled skutterudites
AU - Yan, Binghai
AU - Müchler, Lukas
AU - Qi, Xiao Liang
AU - Zhang, Shou Cheng
AU - Felser, Claudia
N1 - Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering [DE-AC02-76SF00515]; Keck foundation; Supercomputer Center of Northern Germany (HLRN) [hbp00002]; Graduate "School of Excellence Material Science in Mainz" (MAINZ)
PY - 2012/4/16
Y1 - 2012/4/16
N2 - We propose new topological insulators in cerium-filled skutterudite (FS) compounds based on ab initio calculations. We find that two compounds, CeOs 4As 12 and CeOs 4Sb 12, are zero gap materials with band inversions between Os-d and Ce-f orbitals, similar to HgTe. Both compounds are predicted to become topological Kondo insulators at low temperatures, which are Kondo insulators in the bulk but with robust Dirac surface states on the boundary. Furthermore, this family of topological insulators has more unique features. Due to similar lattice parameters there will be a good proximity effect with other superconducting FS compounds, which may realize Majorana fermions. Additionally, the experimentally observed antiferromagnetic phase of CeOs 4Sb 12 at very low temperature provides a way to realize the massive Dirac fermion with topological magnetoelectric effects.
AB - We propose new topological insulators in cerium-filled skutterudite (FS) compounds based on ab initio calculations. We find that two compounds, CeOs 4As 12 and CeOs 4Sb 12, are zero gap materials with band inversions between Os-d and Ce-f orbitals, similar to HgTe. Both compounds are predicted to become topological Kondo insulators at low temperatures, which are Kondo insulators in the bulk but with robust Dirac surface states on the boundary. Furthermore, this family of topological insulators has more unique features. Due to similar lattice parameters there will be a good proximity effect with other superconducting FS compounds, which may realize Majorana fermions. Additionally, the experimentally observed antiferromagnetic phase of CeOs 4Sb 12 at very low temperature provides a way to realize the massive Dirac fermion with topological magnetoelectric effects.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.165125
DO - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.165125
M3 - مقالة
SN - 2469-9950
VL - 85
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
IS - 16
M1 - 165125
ER -