Cyclotron resonance in Kondo insulator

Autor: Yasuhiro Tada
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review Research, Vol 2, Iss 2, p 023194 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023194
Popis: Motivated by the recent experimental observations of quantum oscillations in the Kondo insulators SmB_{6} and YbB_{12}, we study magneto-optical conductivity of Kondo insulators. We show that there exist nontrivial cyclotron resonance peaks in a frequency domain below the hybridization gap as a result of the characteristic Landau level structure of the system. Furthermore, these low-energy peaks are enhanced near the insulator-metal phase transition driven by an applied magnetic field and stable even at low temperatures. They are smoothly connected via the Kondo effect to resonance peaks for unhybridized conduction and f electrons at high temperature. The nontrivial cyclotron resonance is a dynamical counterpart of quantum oscillations in static quantities, and through this intimate connection it will provide a useful insight for the latter.
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