Realization of Kagome Kondo lattice

Boqin Song, Yuyang Xie, Wei-Jian Li, Hui Liu, Jing Chen, Shangjie Tian, Xing Zhang, Qinghong Wang, Xintong Li, Hechang Lei, Qinghua Zhang, Jian-gang Guo, Lin Zhao (), Shun-Li Yu (), Xingjiang Zhou, Xiaolong Chen () and Tianping Ying ()
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Boqin Song: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuyang Xie: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wei-Jian Li: Nanjing University
Hui Liu: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jing Chen: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shangjie Tian: Renmin University of China
Xing Zhang: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qinghong Wang: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xintong Li: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hechang Lei: Renmin University of China
Qinghua Zhang: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jian-gang Guo: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lin Zhao: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shun-Li Yu: Nanjing University
Xingjiang Zhou: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaolong Chen: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tianping Ying: Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature Communications, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract The Kondo lattice, describing a grid of the local magnetic moments coupling to itinerant electrons, is a fertile ground of strongly correlated states in condensed matter physics. While the Kagome lattice has long been predicted to host Kondo physics with exotic magnetism and nontrivial topology, no experimental realization has been achieved to the best of our knowledge. Here, we report the discovery of CsCr6Sb6, a van der Waals-like Kagome Kondo lattice featuring extremely flat, isolated bands at the Fermi level that composed entirely of Cr-3d electrons. We observe heavy fermions with the effective mass over 100 times greater than those of its vanadium counterpart. We also observe Kondo insulating behavior in an ultra-low carrier density of 1019 cm-3 and dimensionality-induced Kondo breakdown. Counterintuitively, mechanical exfoliation of the frustrated bulk reveals hidden A-type antiferromagnetism with even-odd layer-dependent anomalous Hall effect. The realization of Kondo physics in Kagome lattice opens avenues for exploring diverse quantum criticalities in a strongly-correlated frustrated system.

Date: 2025
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