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  • Title: Intrinsic Bulk Quantum Oscillations in a Bulk Unconventional Insulator SmB6.
    Author: Hartstein M, Liu H, Hsu YT, Tan BS, Ciomaga Hatnean M, Balakrishnan G, Sebastian SE.
    Journal: iScience; 2020 Nov 20; 23(11):101632. PubMed ID: 33145482.
    Abstract:
    The finding of bulk quantum oscillations in the Kondo insulator SmB6 proved a considerable surprise. Subsequent measurements of bulk quantum oscillations in other correlated insulators including YbB12 lent support to our discovery of a class of bulk unconventional insulators that host bulk quantum oscillations. Here we perform a series of experiments to examine evidence for the intrinsic character of bulk quantum oscillations in floating zone-grown single crystals of SmB6 that have been the subject of our quantum oscillation studies. We present results of thermodynamic, transport, and composition analysis experiments on pristine floating zone-grown single crystals of SmB6 and compare quantum oscillations with metallic LaB6 and elemental aluminum. These results establish the intrinsic origin of quantum oscillations from the insulating bulk of floating zone-grown SmB6. The similarity of the Fermi surface in insulating SmB6 with the conduction-electron Fermi surface in metallic hexaborides is at the heart of a theoretical mystery.
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