Interplay of Kondo Physics with Incommensurate Charge Density Waves in CeTe$_3$

Fuente: arXiv
Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Saunot, Aymeric, Trontl, Vesna Miksic, Klimovskikh, Ilya I., Vyalikh, Denis V., Louat, Alex, Cacho, Cephise, Kumar, Asish K., Vescovo, Elio, Vobornik, Ivana, Fedorov, Alexander, Petrovic, Cedomir, Valla, Tonica
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2025
Materias:
Acceso en línea:
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866908964444176384
author Saunot, Aymeric
Trontl, Vesna Miksic
Klimovskikh, Ilya I.
Vyalikh, Denis V.
Louat, Alex
Cacho, Cephise
Kumar, Asish K.
Vescovo, Elio
Vobornik, Ivana
Fedorov, Alexander
Petrovic, Cedomir
Valla, Tonica
author_facet Saunot, Aymeric
Trontl, Vesna Miksic
Klimovskikh, Ilya I.
Vyalikh, Denis V.
Louat, Alex
Cacho, Cephise
Kumar, Asish K.
Vescovo, Elio
Vobornik, Ivana
Fedorov, Alexander
Petrovic, Cedomir
Valla, Tonica
contents CeTe$_3$ is a 2--dimensional (2D) Van der Waals (VdW) material with incommensurate charge density waves (CDW), extremely high transition temperature ($T_{CDW}$) and a large momentum--dependent CDW gap that leaves a significant portion of the Fermi surface intact. It is also considered to be a weak Kondo system, a property unexpected for a material with incommensurate CDW, where each atomic site is slightly different. Here, we study the properties of the CDW state in several RTe$_3$ (R is rare earth) materials and examine the hybridization of itinerant states with the localized Ce $4f$ multiplet in CeTe$_3$ by using angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). We find that the renormalization of the itinerant states originating from the hybridization with the deeper localized $4f$ states at $-260$ meV is $k-$dependent and extends to the Fermi level. As these localized states are far from the Fermi level, the observed hybridization affects the effective masses only marginally and does not lead to heavy fermions. However, since the same renormalizing mechanism normally leads to the heavy fermion physics when the localized $4f$ states are near the Fermi level, our observation of its strong $k-$dependence suggests that this could be the reason for discrepancy between the heavy masses in specific heat and light ones in Shubnikov de Haas oscillations, often observed in heavy fermions.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2502_04814
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Interplay of Kondo Physics with Incommensurate Charge Density Waves in CeTe$_3$
Saunot, Aymeric
Trontl, Vesna Miksic
Klimovskikh, Ilya I.
Vyalikh, Denis V.
Louat, Alex
Cacho, Cephise
Kumar, Asish K.
Vescovo, Elio
Vobornik, Ivana
Fedorov, Alexander
Petrovic, Cedomir
Valla, Tonica
Strongly Correlated Electrons
CeTe$_3$ is a 2--dimensional (2D) Van der Waals (VdW) material with incommensurate charge density waves (CDW), extremely high transition temperature ($T_{CDW}$) and a large momentum--dependent CDW gap that leaves a significant portion of the Fermi surface intact. It is also considered to be a weak Kondo system, a property unexpected for a material with incommensurate CDW, where each atomic site is slightly different. Here, we study the properties of the CDW state in several RTe$_3$ (R is rare earth) materials and examine the hybridization of itinerant states with the localized Ce $4f$ multiplet in CeTe$_3$ by using angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). We find that the renormalization of the itinerant states originating from the hybridization with the deeper localized $4f$ states at $-260$ meV is $k-$dependent and extends to the Fermi level. As these localized states are far from the Fermi level, the observed hybridization affects the effective masses only marginally and does not lead to heavy fermions. However, since the same renormalizing mechanism normally leads to the heavy fermion physics when the localized $4f$ states are near the Fermi level, our observation of its strong $k-$dependence suggests that this could be the reason for discrepancy between the heavy masses in specific heat and light ones in Shubnikov de Haas oscillations, often observed in heavy fermions.
title Interplay of Kondo Physics with Incommensurate Charge Density Waves in CeTe$_3$
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04814