Many-body Resonance in a Correlated Topological Kagome Antiferromagnet

TL;DR

This study reveals a many-body Kondo-like resonance in a strongly correlated topological kagome magnet Mn$_3$Sn, observed via STM/S, which is robust against magnetic perturbations but sensitive to temperature, indicating complex electron interactions.

Contribution

It demonstrates the presence of an intrinsic many-body resonance in a topological kagome lattice, linking geometrical frustration and strong correlations to emergent quantum phenomena.

Findings

Observation of a Fano-shaped resonance at the Fermi level

Resonance is intrinsic to the kagome lattice, not impurities

Resonance broadens with temperature, indicating strong interactions

Abstract

We use scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S) to elucidate the atomically resolved electronic structure in strongly correlated topological kagome magnet 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.