Signature of surface state coupling in thin films of the topological   Kondo insulator SmB$_6$ from anisotropic magnetoresistance
  The temperature and thickness dependencies of the in-plane anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) of SmB$_6$ thin films are reported. We find that the AMR changes sign from negative ($\rho_{||}<\rho_{\perp}$) at high temperatures to positive ($\rho_{||}>\rho_{\perp}$) at low temperatures. The temperature, T$_s$, at which this sign change occurs, decreases with increasing film thickness $t$ and T$_s$ vanishes for $t$ $>$ 30 nm. We interpret our results in the framework of a competition between two components: a negative bulk contribution and a positive surface AMR. 
M. Shaviv Petrushevsky, P. K. Rout, G. Levi, A. Kohn, Y. Dagan
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall