Hund flat band in a frustrated spinel oxide
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| author | Oh, Dongjin Hampel, Alexander Wakefield, Joshua P. Moen, Peter Smit, Steef Luo, Xiangyu Zonno, Marta Gorovikov, Sergey Leandersson, Mats Polley, Craig Kundu, Asish K. Rajapitamahuni, Anil Vescovo, Elio Jozwiak, Chris Bostwick, Aaron Rotenberg, Eli Isobe, Masahiko Verma, Manish Crispino, Matteo Grundner, Martin Kugler, Fabian B. Parcollet, Olivier Schollwöck, Ulrich Takagi, Hidenori Damascelli, Andrea Sangiovanni, Giorgio Checkelsky, Joseph G. Georges, Antoine Comin, Riccardo |
| author_facet | Oh, Dongjin Hampel, Alexander Wakefield, Joshua P. Moen, Peter Smit, Steef Luo, Xiangyu Zonno, Marta Gorovikov, Sergey Leandersson, Mats Polley, Craig Kundu, Asish K. Rajapitamahuni, Anil Vescovo, Elio Jozwiak, Chris Bostwick, Aaron Rotenberg, Eli Isobe, Masahiko Verma, Manish Crispino, Matteo Grundner, Martin Kugler, Fabian B. Parcollet, Olivier Schollwöck, Ulrich Takagi, Hidenori Damascelli, Andrea Sangiovanni, Giorgio Checkelsky, Joseph G. Georges, Antoine Comin, Riccardo |
| contents | Electronic flat bands associated with quenched kinetic energy and heavy electron mass have attracted great interest for promoting strong electronic correlations and emergent phenomena such as high-temperature charge fractionalization and superconductivity. Intense experimental and theoretical research has been devoted to establishing the rich non-trivial metallic and heavy fermion phases intertwined with such localized electronic states. Here, we investigate the transition metal oxide spinel LiV2O4, an enigmatic heavy fermion compound lacking localized f orbital states. We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and dynamical mean field theory to reveal a new kind of correlation-induced flat band with suppressed inter-atomic electron hopping arising from intra-atomic Hund coupling. The appearance of heavy quasiparticles is ascribed to a proximate orbital-selective Mott state characterized by fluctuating local moments as evidenced by complementary magnetotransport measurements. The spectroscopic fingerprints of long-lived quasiparticles and their disappearance with increasing temperature further support the emergence of a high-temperature bad metal state observed in transport data. This work resolves a long-standing puzzle on the origin of heavy fermion behavior and unconventional transport in LiV2O4. Simultaneously, it opens a new path to achieving flat bands through electronic interactions in d-orbital systems with geometrical frustration, potentially enabling the realization of exotic phases of matter such as the fractionalized Fermi liquids. |
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| spellingShingle | Hund flat band in a frustrated spinel oxide Oh, Dongjin Hampel, Alexander Wakefield, Joshua P. Moen, Peter Smit, Steef Luo, Xiangyu Zonno, Marta Gorovikov, Sergey Leandersson, Mats Polley, Craig Kundu, Asish K. Rajapitamahuni, Anil Vescovo, Elio Jozwiak, Chris Bostwick, Aaron Rotenberg, Eli Isobe, Masahiko Verma, Manish Crispino, Matteo Grundner, Martin Kugler, Fabian B. Parcollet, Olivier Schollwöck, Ulrich Takagi, Hidenori Damascelli, Andrea Sangiovanni, Giorgio Checkelsky, Joseph G. Georges, Antoine Comin, Riccardo Strongly Correlated Electrons Electronic flat bands associated with quenched kinetic energy and heavy electron mass have attracted great interest for promoting strong electronic correlations and emergent phenomena such as high-temperature charge fractionalization and superconductivity. Intense experimental and theoretical research has been devoted to establishing the rich non-trivial metallic and heavy fermion phases intertwined with such localized electronic states. Here, we investigate the transition metal oxide spinel LiV2O4, an enigmatic heavy fermion compound lacking localized f orbital states. We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and dynamical mean field theory to reveal a new kind of correlation-induced flat band with suppressed inter-atomic electron hopping arising from intra-atomic Hund coupling. The appearance of heavy quasiparticles is ascribed to a proximate orbital-selective Mott state characterized by fluctuating local moments as evidenced by complementary magnetotransport measurements. The spectroscopic fingerprints of long-lived quasiparticles and their disappearance with increasing temperature further support the emergence of a high-temperature bad metal state observed in transport data. This work resolves a long-standing puzzle on the origin of heavy fermion behavior and unconventional transport in LiV2O4. Simultaneously, it opens a new path to achieving flat bands through electronic interactions in d-orbital systems with geometrical frustration, potentially enabling the realization of exotic phases of matter such as the fractionalized Fermi liquids. |
| title | Hund flat band in a frustrated spinel oxide |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07234 |