On the Chemistry and Physical Properties of Flux and Floating Zone Grown SmB6 Single Crystals
On the Chemistry and Physical Properties of Flux and Floating Zone Grown SmB6 Single Crystals
Abstract Recent theoretical and experimental findings suggest the long-known but not well understood low temperature resistance plateau of SmB 6 may originate from protected surface states arising from a topologically non-trivial bulk band structure having strong Kondo hybridization. Yet others have ascribed this feature to impurities, vacancies and surface reconstructions. …