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Abstract
We show that novel low temperature properties of bulk SmB_{6}, including the sudden growth of the de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) amplitude (and heat capacity) at millikelvin temperatures and a previously unreported linear-in-temperature bulk electrical conductivity at liquid helium temperatures, signal the presence of a highly asymmetric nodal semimetal. We show that a highly asymmetric nodal semimetal is also a predicted property of the Kondo lattice model (with dispersionless f-electron levels) in the presence of Sm vacancies or other defects. We show it can result from a topological transformation of the type recently considered by Shen and Fu and eliminates the necessity of a neutral Fermi surface for explaining bulk dHvA oscillations in SmB_{6}.Entities:
Year: 2018 PMID: 30085756 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.026602
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161