Electrical transport signatures of metallic surface state formation in the strongly-correlated insulator FeSb2
Abstract
We present local and nonlocal electrical transport measurements of the correlated insulator FeSb2. By employing wiring configurations that delineate between bulk- and surface-dominated conduction, we reveal the formation of a metallic surface state in FeSb2 for temperatures 5~K. This result is corroborated by an angular rotation study of this material's magnetotransport, which also shows signatures of the transition from bulk- to surface-dominated conduction over the same temperature interval as the local/nonlocal transport divergence. Notable similarities with the topological Kondo insulator candidate SmB6 are discussed.
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