Lifshitz transition from valence fluctuations in YbAl3

How the electronic structure of a mixed-valence system changes with respect to local chemical environment remains elusive. Here, Chatterjee et al. show that valence fluctuations of YbAl3 can lead to dramatic changes in the Fermi surface topology in reciprocal space.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shouvik Chatterjee, Jacob P. Ruf, Haofei I. Wei, Kenneth D. Finkelstein, Darrell G. Schlom, Kyle M. Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00946-1