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Topological Crystalline Kondo Insulator in Mixed Valence Ytterbium Borides

arXiv:1308.5607 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.016403

Abstract

The electronic structures of two mixed valence insulators YbB and YbB are studied by using the local density approximation (LDA) supplemented with the Gutzwiller method and dynamic mean field theory (DMFT). YbB is found to be a moderately correlated Z topological insulator, similar to SmB but having much larger bulk band gap. Notably, YbB is revealed to be in a new novel quantum state, strongly correlated topological crystalline Kondo insulator, which is characterized by its non-zero mirror Chern number. The surface calculations find odd (three) and even (four) number of Dirac cones for YbB and YbB, respectively.

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