Selective Kondo screening and strange metallicity by sliding Dirac semimetals

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhong, Hanting, Yang, Shuxiang, Cao, Chao, Feng, Xiao-Yong, Dai, Jianhui
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866915939762569216
author Zhong, Hanting
Yang, Shuxiang
Cao, Chao
Feng, Xiao-Yong
Dai, Jianhui
author_facet Zhong, Hanting
Yang, Shuxiang
Cao, Chao
Feng, Xiao-Yong
Dai, Jianhui
contents Kondo screening of local moments in normal metals typically leads to hybridized conduction and valence bands separated by a Kondo gap, resulting in an insulating state at half-band filling. We show a dramatic change of this scenario in a Dirac-semimetal-based correlated system -- a bilayer honeycomb lattice heterostructure where a local moment lattice is stacked on a Dirac semimetal breaking the inversion symmetry. This system is modeled by an extended Anderson honeycomb lattice involving the real-space dependence of major interlayer hybridization parameters on the relative sliding distance along the armchair direction. First, we unveil multiple Kondo scales and successive Kondo breakdown transitions in this correlated heterostructure under sliding. Second, we demonstrate the existence of a genuine selective Kondo screening phase which is stabilized near the A-B stack pattern and is accessible by applying interlayer voltage. Third, we find a nearly flat hybridized band located concomitantly within the Kondo gap, resulting in an unprecedented metallic state at half-band filling. This unconventional heavy fermion state is characterized by violation of Luttinger theorem and appearance of a Van Hove singularity at the Fermi energy. The general sliding-driven band structure landscape and the implications of our results for the broad context of multiorbital Kondo physics are briefly discussed.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2504_06739
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Selective Kondo screening and strange metallicity by sliding Dirac semimetals
Zhong, Hanting
Yang, Shuxiang
Cao, Chao
Feng, Xiao-Yong
Dai, Jianhui
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Kondo screening of local moments in normal metals typically leads to hybridized conduction and valence bands separated by a Kondo gap, resulting in an insulating state at half-band filling. We show a dramatic change of this scenario in a Dirac-semimetal-based correlated system -- a bilayer honeycomb lattice heterostructure where a local moment lattice is stacked on a Dirac semimetal breaking the inversion symmetry. This system is modeled by an extended Anderson honeycomb lattice involving the real-space dependence of major interlayer hybridization parameters on the relative sliding distance along the armchair direction. First, we unveil multiple Kondo scales and successive Kondo breakdown transitions in this correlated heterostructure under sliding. Second, we demonstrate the existence of a genuine selective Kondo screening phase which is stabilized near the A-B stack pattern and is accessible by applying interlayer voltage. Third, we find a nearly flat hybridized band located concomitantly within the Kondo gap, resulting in an unprecedented metallic state at half-band filling. This unconventional heavy fermion state is characterized by violation of Luttinger theorem and appearance of a Van Hove singularity at the Fermi energy. The general sliding-driven band structure landscape and the implications of our results for the broad context of multiorbital Kondo physics are briefly discussed.
title Selective Kondo screening and strange metallicity by sliding Dirac semimetals
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06739