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Kondo with a topological twist

In a semiconductor bilayer system, local moments in one layer interact with itinerant carriers in the other to realize a two-dimensional topological Kondo insulator.

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Fig. 1: Topological Kondo insulator in a moiré bilayer.

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Feldman, B.E. Kondo with a topological twist. Nat. Phys. 22, 340–341 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03209-3

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