Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2009-07-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
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We study the role of electron correlations among Co 3d electrons contributing to the conduction band of a Kondo lattice compound, Ce2CoSi3, using high resolution photoemission spectroscopy and ab initio band structure calculations. Experimental results reveal signature of Ce 4$f$ states derived Kondo resonance feature at the Fermi level and dominance of Co 3d contributions at higher binding energies in the valence band. The line shape of the experimental Co 3$d$ band is found to be significantly different from that obtained from the band structure calculations within the local density approximations. Consideration of electron-electron Coulomb repulsion among Co 3d electrons leads to a better representation of experimental results. The correlation strength among Co 3$d$ electrons is found to be about 3 eV. Signature of electron correlation induced satellite feature is also observed in the Co 2p core level spectrum. Thus, these results demonstrate the importance of the electron correlation among conduction electrons to derive the microscopic description of such Kondo systems.
Bindu R.
Maiti Kalobaran
Medicherla V. R. R.
Pandey Sudhir
Patil Swapnil
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