4f crystal field ground state of the strongly correlated topological insulator SmB6
We investigated the crystal-electric field ground state of the 4f manifold in the strongly correlated topological insulator SmB6 using core-level nonresonant inelastic x-ray scattering. The directional dependence of the scattering function that arises from higher multipole transitions establishes un...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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5 January 2018
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Physical review letters
Year: 2018, Volume: 120, Issue: 1, Pages: 016402 |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.016402 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.016402 Verlag, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.016402 
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| Author Notes: | M. Sundermann, H. Yavaş, K. Chen, D.J. Kim, Z. Fisk, D. Kasinathan, M.W. Haverkort, P. Thalmeier, A. Severing, and L.H. Tjeng |
| Summary: | We investigated the crystal-electric field ground state of the 4f manifold in the strongly correlated topological insulator SmB6 using core-level nonresonant inelastic x-ray scattering. The directional dependence of the scattering function that arises from higher multipole transitions establishes unambiguously that the Γ8 quartet state of the Sm f5 J=5/2 configuration governs the ground-state symmetry and, hence, the topological properties of SmB6. Our findings contradict the results of density functional calculations reported so far. |
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| Item Description: | Im Titel ist die Ziffer "6" tiefgestellt Gesehen am 30.05.2018 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.016402 |