Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Fermion–boson many-body interplay in a frustrated kagome paramagnet

  • J.-X. Yin,
  • Nana Shumiya,
  • Sougata Mardanya,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Songtian S. Zhang,
  • Hung-Ju Tien,
  • Daniel Multer,
  • Yuxiao Jiang,
  • Guangming Cheng,
  • Nan Yao,
  • Shangfei Wu,
  • Desheng Wu,
  • Liangzi Deng,
  • Zhipeng Ye,
  • Rui He,
  • Guoqing Chang,
  • Zhonghao Liu,
  • Kun Jiang,
  • Ziqiang Wang,
  • Titus Neupert,
  • Amit Agarwal,
  • Tay-Rong Chang,
  • Ching-Wu Chu,
  • Hechang Lei,
  • M. Zahid Hasan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17464-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Frustrated kagome magnets host both fermionic and bosonic excitations, but evidence of their interplay has been elusive. Here, the authors report a pronounced renormalization of electron bands near the Fermi surface due to the coupling with a flat phonon band in a kagome paramagnet, CoSn.