Electronic fine structure in the electron-hole plasma in SrB6
Electron-hole mixing-induced fine structure in alkaline earth hexaborides leads to lower energy (temperature) scales, and thus a stronger tendency toward an excitonic instability than in their doped counterparts (viz. Ca1-xLaxB6, x approximately 0.005), which are high-Curie-temperature, small-moment ferromagnets. Comparison of Fermi surfaces and spectral distributions with de Haas-van Alphen, optical, transport, and tunneling data indicates that SrB6 remains a fermionic semimetal down to (at least) 5 K, rather than forming an excitonic condensate. For the doped system the Curie temperature is higher than the degeneracy temperature.
Rodriguez
CO
Instituto de Fisica de Liquidos y Sistemas Biologicos, Grupo Fisica del Solido, Casilla de Correo 565, La Plata 1900, Argentina.
Weht
R
Pickett
WE