Excitation spectra in Kondo insulators

It is shown that the exotic strong local characters in the Kondo insulator are difficult to understand based on the band model and the localized Kondo electron model based on the local picture can explain the essential characteristics, in particular characteristic excitation spectra with two peak structure, which is caused through the transition of the localized Kondo electron. Excitation spectra in SmB6, YbB12 and Ce3Bi4Pt3 are shown to be explained by the above model. On the other hand, that of the pseudo gap Kondo insulator CeNiSn is shown to be substantially different.