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Topological Kondo insulators

Negative pressure tuning

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Large tensile pressure applied to the putative topological Kondo insulator SmB6 results in an expansion of the lattice in all directions, and a huge increase in the temperature range over which surface-dominated conduction can be observed.

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Figure 1: Uniaxial pressure set-up.

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  1. Andrew P. Mackenzie and Clifford W. Hicks are at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany,

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  2. A.P.M is also at the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK,

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