Nature Communications (May 2019)

Non-trivial surface states of samarium hexaboride at the (111) surface

  • Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo,
  • Yuki Yamashita,
  • Kenta Hagiwara,
  • Shin-ichiro Ideta,
  • Kiyohisa Tanaka,
  • Ryu Yukawa,
  • Koji Horiba,
  • Hiroshi Kumigashira,
  • Koji Miyamoto,
  • Taichi Okuda,
  • Wataru Hirano,
  • Fumitoshi Iga,
  • Shin-ichi Kimura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10353-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Samarium hexaboride has unusual electronic properties that have been suggested to arise from topological effects. Here the authors present spin-resolved ARPES measurements of the (111) surface and observe surface states that may give insight into the bulk topological properties.