Emergent Heavy-Fermion Physics in a Family of Topological Insulators RAsS (R = Y, La, and Sm)

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Beitragende

  • Iñigo Robredo - , Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (Autor:in)
  • Yuan Fang - , Rice University (Autor:in)
  • Lei Chen - , Rice University, Stony Brook University (Autor:in)
  • Nazar Zaremba - , Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Autor:in)
  • Yurii Prots - , Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Autor:in)
  • Mitja Krnel - , Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Autor:in)
  • Markus König - , Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Autor:in)
  • Mikel I. Iraola - , Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Thomas Doert - , Professur für Anorganische Chemie (II) (AC2) (Autor:in)
  • Jeroen van den Brink - , Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Claudia Felser - , Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Autor:in)
  • Qimiao Si - , Rice University (Autor:in)
  • Eteri Svanidze - , Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Autor:in)
  • Maia G. Vergniory - , Donostia International Physics Center, Université de Sherbrooke, Regroupement Québécois sur les Matériaux de Pointe (Autor:in)

Abstract

Realizing topological phases in strongly correlated materials has become a major impetus in condensed matter physics. Although many compounds are now classified as topological insulators, f-electron systems provide an especially fertile platform for emergent heavy-fermion phenomena driven by the interplay of topology and many-body effects. In this study, we examine the crystalline topology of a new RAsS series (R = Y, La, Sm), revealing a structural variant from previous reports. We demonstrate that YAsS and SmAsS host hourglass fermions protected by glide symmetry. SmAsS notably exhibits a strong effective-mass enhancement, placing it alongside SmB6 and YbB12 as a material that exemplifies how the Kondo effects pin the correlated f-electron states near the Fermi energy and, consequently, renormalize the energy and mass scales of topological surface states without destroying their crystalline protection. This tunability establishes SmAsS as a bridge between weakly correlated topological materials and Kondo insulators. To capture these features, we construct a minimal model incorporating f-electron degrees of freedom, which reproduces the observed topological properties and predicts that the surface states survive in the correlated regime, albeit shifted in energy. Our work thus introduces a new family of correlated topological materials and forecasts the robustness of their surface states under Kondo correlations.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)12979-12989
Seitenumfang11
FachzeitschriftJournal of the American Chemical Society
Jahrgang148
Ausgabenummer12
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Apr. 2026
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 41805358
ORCID /0000-0001-7523-9313/work/223382140