{"title":"Experimental observation of a Fermi-level flat band in a novel kagome Metal CeNi5","authors":"Xuezhi Chen, Le Wang, Shuai Zhang, Renjie Zhang, Yiwei Cheng, Yudong Hu, Chengnuo Meng, Zhengtai Liu, Baiqing Lv, Yaobo Huang","doi":"10.1088/1674-1056/ad4019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Kagome materials are a class of materials with a lattice structure composed of corner-sharing triangles that give rise to various exotic electronic phenomena, such as Dirac fermions, van Hove singularities, and flat bands. However, most of the known kagome materials have a flat band detached from the Fermi energy, limiting the investigation of the emergent flat band physics. By combining soft X-ray angle-resolved resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and the first-principles calculations, we reveal the electronic structure of a novel kagome metal CeNi5 with a clear dispersion along kz\n direction and a Fermi level flat band on the Γ-K-M-Γ plane. Besides, resonant ARPES experiments results indicate a near 4+ valence state of Ce ions, which is consistent with the transport measurements. Our results demonstrate the unique electronic properties of CeNi5 as a new kagome metal and provide an ideal platform for exploring the flat band physics as well as the interaction between different types of flat bands by tuning the valence state of Ce ions.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1056/ad4019","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Kagome materials are a class of materials with a lattice structure composed of corner-sharing triangles that give rise to various exotic electronic phenomena, such as Dirac fermions, van Hove singularities, and flat bands. However, most of the known kagome materials have a flat band detached from the Fermi energy, limiting the investigation of the emergent flat band physics. By combining soft X-ray angle-resolved resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and the first-principles calculations, we reveal the electronic structure of a novel kagome metal CeNi5 with a clear dispersion along kz
direction and a Fermi level flat band on the Γ-K-M-Γ plane. Besides, resonant ARPES experiments results indicate a near 4+ valence state of Ce ions, which is consistent with the transport measurements. Our results demonstrate the unique electronic properties of CeNi5 as a new kagome metal and provide an ideal platform for exploring the flat band physics as well as the interaction between different types of flat bands by tuning the valence state of Ce ions.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
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