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Emergence of Kondo Resonance in Graphene Intercalated with Cerium

  • Jinwoong Hwang
  • , Kyoo Kim
  • , Hyejin Ryu
  • , Jingul Kim
  • , Ji Eun Lee
  • , Sooran Kim
  • , Minhee Kang
  • , Byeong Gyu Park
  • , Alessandra Lanzara
  • , Jinwook Chung
  • , Sung Kwan Mo
  • , Jonathan Denlinger
  • , Byung Il Min
  • , Choongyu Hwang
  • Pusan National University
  • Pohang University of Science and Technology
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

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Abstract

The interaction between a magnetic impurity, such as cerium (Ce) atom, and surrounding electrons has been one of the core problems in understanding many-body interaction in solid and its relation to magnetism. Kondo effect, the formation of a new resonant ground state with quenched magnetic moment, provides a general framework to describe many-body interaction in the presence of magnetic impurity. In this Letter, a combined study of angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) and dynamic mean-field theory (DMFT) on Ce-intercalated graphene shows that Ce-induced localized states near Fermi energy, EF, hybridized with the graphene π-band, exhibit gradual increase in spectral weight upon decreasing temperature. The observed temperature dependence follows the expectations from the Kondo picture in the weak coupling limit. Our results provide a novel insight how Kondo physics emerges in the sea of two-dimensional Dirac electrons.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3661-3666
Number of pages6
JournalNano Letters
Volume18
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Jun 2018

Keywords

  • Kondo effect
  • angle-resolved photoemission
  • cerium
  • graphene

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