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Biswas, Sangram, Ciomaga Hatnean, Monica, Balakrishnan, Geetha and Bid, Aveek (2017) Probing the interplay between surface and bulk states in the topological Kondo insulator SmB6 through conductance fluctuation spectroscopy. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), 95 (20). 205403. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.205403 ISSN 1098-0121.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.205403
Abstract
We present results of resistance fluctuation spectroscopy on single crystals of the predicted Kondo topological insulator material SmB6. Our measurements show that at low temperatures, transport in this system takes place only through surface states. The measured noise in this temperature range arises due to universal conductance fluctuations whose statistics was found to be consistent with theoretical predictions for that of two-dimensional systems in the symplectic symmetry class. At higher temperatures, we find signatures of glassy dynamics and establish that the measured noise is caused by mobility fluctuations in the bulk. We find that, unlike the topological insulators of the dichalcogenide family, the noises in surface and bulk conduction channels in SmB6 are completely uncorrelated. Our measurements establish that at sufficiently low temperatures, the bulk has no discernible contribution to electrical transport in SmB6, making it an ideal platform for probing the physics of topological surface states
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Semiconductors, Samarium, Boron | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) | ||||||
| Publisher: | American Physical Society | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1098-0121 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2 May 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 95 | ||||||
| Number: | 20 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 205403 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.205403 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | American Physical Society | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 June 2017 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 June 2017 | ||||||
| Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), India. Department of Science and Technology (DST) | ||||||
| Grant number: | EP/ L014963/1 (EPSRC), Nanomission (DST) |
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