Interlayer Coupling of a Two-Dimensional Kondo Lattice with a Ferromagnetic Surface in the Antiferromagnet CeCo2P2

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Contributors

  • Georg Poelchen - , Chair of Surface Physics, European Synchrotron Radiat Facil, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) (Author)
  • Igor P. Rusinov - , Tomsk State University, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Author)
  • Susanne Schulz - , Chair of Ultrafast Solid State Physics and Photonics, Professor (rtd.) for Surface Physics (Author)
  • Monika Guttler - , Chair of Ultrafast Solid State Physics and Photonics (Author)
  • Max Mende - , Professor (rtd.) for Surface Physics (Author)
  • Alexander Generalov - , Lund University (Author)
  • Dmitry Yu Usachov - , Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Author)
  • Steffen Danzenbaecher - , Chair of Ultrafast Solid State Physics and Photonics (Author)
  • Johannes Hellwig - , Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. (Author)
  • Marius Peters - , Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. (Author)
  • Kristin Kliemt - , Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. (Author)
  • Yuri Kucherenko - , National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Author)
  • Victor N. Antonov - , National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Author)
  • Clemens Laubschat - , Professor (rtd.) for Surface Physics (Author)
  • Evgueni Chulkov - , Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, University of the Basque Country (Author)
  • Arthur Ernst - , Johannes Kepler University Linz (Author)
  • Kurt Kummer - , European Synchrotron Radiat Facil, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) (Author)
  • Cornelius Krellner - , University Hospital Frankfurt (Author)
  • Denis V. Vyalikh - , Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science, Donostia International Physics Center (Author)

Abstract

The f-driven temperature scales at the surfaces of strongly correlated materials have increasingly come into the focus of research efforts. Here, we unveil the emergence of a two-dimensional Ce Kondo lattice, which couples ferromagnetically to the ordered Co lattice below the P-terminated surface of the antiferromagnet CeCo2P2. In its bulk, Ce is passive and behaves tetravalently. However, because of symmetry breaking and an effective magnetic field caused by an uncompensated ferromagnetic Co layer, the Ce 4f states become partially occupied and spin-polarized near the surface. The momentum-resolved photoemission measurements indicate a strong admixture of the Ce 4f states to the itinerant bands near the Fermi level including surface states that are split by exchange interaction with Co. The temperature-dependent measurements reveal strong changes of the 4f intensity at the Fermi level in accordance with the Kondo scenario. Our findings show how rich and diverse the f-driven properties can be at the surface of materials without f-physics in the bulk.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3573-3581
Number of pages9
JournalACS Nano
Volume16
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 22 Mar 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85125332693
WOS 000780214300011
PubMed 35156797

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Keywords

  • CeCo2P2, Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, Antiferromagnetic order, Heavy fermion, two-dimensional Kondo lattice, Two-iimicnsional ferromagnetism