Abstract
Hund metals are multiorbital systems with or electrons exhibiting both an itinerant character and local moments, and they feature Kondo-like screenings of local orbital and spin moments, with suppressed coherence temperatures driven by Hund's coupling . They often exhibit magnetic order at low temperature, but how the interaction between the Kondo-like screening and long-range magnetic order is manifested in the quasiparticle spectrum remains an open question. Here, we present the spectroscopic signature of such an interaction in a Hund metal candidate MnSi exhibiting weak ferromagnetism. Our photoemission measurements reveal renormalized quasiparticle bands near the Fermi level with strong momentum dependence: The ferromagnetism manifests through possibly exchange-split bands (Q1) below , while the spin/orbital screenings lead to the gradual development of quasiparticles (Q2) upon cooling. Our results demonstrate how the characteristic spin/orbital coherence in a Hund metal could coexist and compete with the magnetic order to form a weak itinerant ferromagnet, via quasiparticle bands that are well separated in momentum space and exhibit distinct temperature dependence. Our results imply that the competition between the spin/orbital screening and the magnetic order in a Hund metal bears interesting similarities to the Kondo lattice systems.
- Received 20 June 2022
- Revised 26 September 2022
- Accepted 12 October 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.L161112
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