Mixed valent SmB6 and gold-SmS: Metals or insulators?
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 49 (3) , 2078-2083
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.324745
Abstract
We review the dc transport properties of mixed valent compounds SmB6 and gold‐SmS and find the character of the ground state, metallic or insulating, to be an open question. The room temperature optical properties of SmB6 and gold‐SmS display ordinary metallic behavior at high energy, but are very nonmetallic at low energy in that E1 becomes positive like an insulator from about 0.1 eV down to the lowest energy measured. We show that these room temperature optical properties are consistent with a ’’bad‐metal’’ model having either a sharp 4f resonance at the Fermi level, or a collective low frequency density fluctuation, and extract from the data a value ∼.08 eV for the 4f‐5d mixing matrix element. But we point out that the possibility of an insulating ground state remains.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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