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Title: Shadow surface states in topological Kondo insulators

Abstract: The surface states of 3D topological insulators in general have negligible quantum oscillations when the chemical potential is tuned to the Dirac points. In contrast, we find that topological Kondo insulators can support surface states with an arbitrarily large Fermi surface when the chemical potential is pinned to the Dirac point. We illustrate that these Fermi surfaces give rise to finite-frequency quantum oscillations, which can become comparable to the extremal area of the unhybridized bulk bands. We show that this occurs when the crystal symmetry is lowered from cubic to tetragonal in a minimal two-orbital model. We label such surface modes as `shadow surface states'. Moreover, we show that the sufficient next-nearest neighbor out-of-plane hybridization leading to shadow surface states can be self-consistently stabilized for tetragonal topological Kondo insulators. Consequently, shadow surface states provide an important example of high-frequency quantum oscillations beyond the context of cubic topological Kondo insulators.
Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
Journal reference: New J. Phys. 23, 123042 (2021)
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac4124
Cite as: arXiv:2012.11625 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2012.11625v2 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Areg Ghazaryan [view email]
[v1] Mon, 21 Dec 2020 19:00:17 GMT (2460kb,D)
[v2] Sun, 26 Dec 2021 13:33:14 GMT (2310kb,D)

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