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Many-Body Resonance in a Correlated Topological Kagome Antiferromagnet
Songtian Sonia Zhang1, Jia-Xin Yin1, Muhammad Ikhlas2
1Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton 08544, New Jersey, USA.
Abstract:
We use scanning tunneling microscopy to elucidate the atomically resolved electronic structure in the strongly correlated kagome Weyl antiferromagnet Mn_{3}Sn. In stark contrast to its broad single-particle electronic structure, we observe a pronounced resonance with a Fano line shape at the Fermi level resembling the many-body Kondo resonance. We find that this resonance does not arise from the step edges or atomic impurities but the intrinsic kagome lattice. Moreover, the resonance is robust against the perturbation of a vector magnetic field, but broadens substantially with increasing temperature, signaling strongly interacting physics. We show that this resonance can be understood as the result of geometrical frustration and strong correlation based on the kagome lattice Hubbard model. Our results point to the emergent many-body resonance behavior in a topological kagome magnet.
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