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Phase stability in SmB$_6$ by Crivillero, M. Victoria Ale; Rößler, Sahana; Borrmann, H.; Dawczak-Dȩbicki, H.; Rosa, Priscila F. S.; Fisk, Z.; Wirth, S. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Phase stability in SmB$_6$ about?

We investigate flux-grown Sm-deficient Sm$_x$B$_6$ ($x < 1$) by global and local tools, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), electronic transport, and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS). All these tools indicate a remarkable persistence of the SmB$_6$ local structure in the flux-grown samples even for nominal Sm concentrations as low as $x=0.75$. As a consequence, the overall electronic properties of Sm$_x$B$_6$, and particularly the surface conductance at low temperature, is only affected locally by the Sm-deficiency.

Author

Crivillero, M. Victoria Ale; Rößler, Sahana; Borrmann, H.; Dawczak-Dȩbicki, H.; Rosa, Priscila F. S.; Fisk, Z.; Wirth, S.

Published

2021

Language

EN