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Emergent Dynamical Kondo Coherence and Competing Magnetic Order in a Correlated Kagome Flat-Band Metal CsCr_{6}Sb_{6}
Xiangqi Liu1, Xuefeng Zhang1, Jiachen Jiao2
1ShanghaiTech University, State Key Laboratory of Quantum Functional Materials, School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai 201210, China.
Abstract:
Correlated kagome metals host unique electronic states that enable exotic quantum phenomena. In the recently emerged CsCr_{6}Sb_{6}, these manifest through Kondo behavior from localized Cr-3d electrons and unprecedented band flattening near the Fermi level. Yet the intricate interplay among Kondo screening, magnetic frustration, and electronic correlations remains poorly understood-a fundamental gap we address through multifaceted experimental and theoretical approaches. Our angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements reveal electronic correlation-renormalized flat bands, and our muon spin relaxation study detects short-range magnetic order at T_{N}∼80 K. Complementing these findings, density-functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory calculations identify a coherent-incoherent crossover at T_{N}, with a remarkable restoration of coherence accompanying local moment suppression-an anomalous hallmark of Kondo behavior. Intriguingly, despite strong interlayer antiferromagnetic coupling, the system evades long-range magnetic order due to competing magnetic configurations separated by sub-meV energy differences. These insights establish CsCr_{6}Sb_{6} as a prototypical platform for investigating dynamical Kondo screening in correlated flat-band systems, opening new avenues to study flat-band physics and frustrated magnetism in correlated kagome lattices.
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