Flatbands and Emergent Ferromagnetic Ordering in Fe3Sn2 Kagome Lattices
- Title
- Flatbands and Emergent Ferromagnetic Ordering in Fe3Sn2 Kagome Lattices
- Author
- 조준형
- Keywords
- TOTAL-ENERGY CALCULATIONS; HUBBARD-MODEL; DIRAC FERMIONS; GROUND-STATES; CRYSTAL; NARROW
- Issue Date
- 2018-08
- Publisher
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
- Citation
- PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, v. 121, no. 9, Article no. 096401
- Abstract
- A flatband representing a highly degenerate and dispersionless manifold state of electrons may offer unique opportunities for the emergence of exotic quantum phases. To date, definitive experimental demonstrations of flatbands remain to be accomplished in realistic materials. Here, we present the first experimental observation of a striking flatband near the Fermi level in the layered Fe3Sn2 crystal consisting of two Fe kagome lattices separated by a Sn spacing layer. The band flatness is attributed to the local destructive interferences of Bloch wave functions within the kagome lattices, as confirmed through theoretical calculations and modelings. We also establish high-temperature ferromagnetic ordering in the system and interpret the observed collective phenomenon as a consequence of the synergetic effect of electron correlation and the peculiar lattice geometry. Specifically, local spin moments formed by intramolecular exchange interaction are ferromagnetically coupled through a unique network of the hexagonal units in the kagome lattice. Our findings have important implications to exploit emergent flatband physics in special lattice geometries.
- URI
- https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.096401https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/119646
- ISSN
- 0031-9007; 1079-7114
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.096401
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- COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES[S](자연과학대학) > PHYSICS(물리학과) > Articles
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