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Main Authors: Chang, Ming-Hua, Backes, Steffen, Lu, Donghui, Gauthier, Nicolas, Hashimoto, Makoto, Chen, Guan-Yu, Wen, Hai-Hu, Mo, Sung-Kwan, Shen, Zhi-Xun, Valenti, Roser, Pfau, Heike
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06314
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author Chang, Ming-Hua
Backes, Steffen
Lu, Donghui
Gauthier, Nicolas
Hashimoto, Makoto
Chen, Guan-Yu
Wen, Hai-Hu
Mo, Sung-Kwan
Shen, Zhi-Xun
Valenti, Roser
Pfau, Heike
author_facet Chang, Ming-Hua
Backes, Steffen
Lu, Donghui
Gauthier, Nicolas
Hashimoto, Makoto
Chen, Guan-Yu
Wen, Hai-Hu
Mo, Sung-Kwan
Shen, Zhi-Xun
Valenti, Roser
Pfau, Heike
contents Understanding how renormalized quasiparticles emerge in strongly correlated electron materials provides a challenge for both experiment and theory. It has been predicted that distinctive spin and orbital screening mechanisms drive this process in multiorbital materials with strong Coulomb and Hund's interactions. Here, we provide the experimental evidence of both mechanisms from angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on RbFe$_2$As$_2$. We observe that the emergence of low-energy Fe 3$d_{xy}$ quasiparticles below 90K is tied to spin screening. A second process changes the spectral weight at high energies up to room temperature. Supported by theoretical calculations we attribute it to orbital screening of Fe 3d atomic excitations. These two cascading screening processes drive the temperature evolution from a bad metal to a correlated Fermi liquid.
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spellingShingle Observation of Two Cascading Screening Processes in an Iron-based Superconductor
Chang, Ming-Hua
Backes, Steffen
Lu, Donghui
Gauthier, Nicolas
Hashimoto, Makoto
Chen, Guan-Yu
Wen, Hai-Hu
Mo, Sung-Kwan
Shen, Zhi-Xun
Valenti, Roser
Pfau, Heike
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Understanding how renormalized quasiparticles emerge in strongly correlated electron materials provides a challenge for both experiment and theory. It has been predicted that distinctive spin and orbital screening mechanisms drive this process in multiorbital materials with strong Coulomb and Hund's interactions. Here, we provide the experimental evidence of both mechanisms from angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on RbFe$_2$As$_2$. We observe that the emergence of low-energy Fe 3$d_{xy}$ quasiparticles below 90K is tied to spin screening. A second process changes the spectral weight at high energies up to room temperature. Supported by theoretical calculations we attribute it to orbital screening of Fe 3d atomic excitations. These two cascading screening processes drive the temperature evolution from a bad metal to a correlated Fermi liquid.
title Observation of Two Cascading Screening Processes in an Iron-based Superconductor
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06314