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Unconventional Hund Metal in a Weak Itinerant Ferromagnet

Chen, X.; Krivenko, I.; Stone, M. B.; Kolesnikov, A. I.; Wolf, T. 1; Reznik, D.; Bedell, K. S.; Lechermann, F.; Wilson, S. D.
1 Institut für Festkörperphysik (IFP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

The physics of weak itinerant ferromagnets is challenging due to their small magnetic moments and the ambiguous role of local interactions governing their electronic properties, many of which violate Fermi-liquid theory. While magnetic fluctuations play an important role in the materials’ unusual electronic states, the nature of these fluctuations and the paradigms through which they arise remain debated. Here we use inelastic neutron scattering to study magnetic fluctuations in the canonical weak itinerant ferromagnet MnSi. Data reveal that short-wavelength magnons continue to propagate until a mode crossing predicted for strongly interacting quasiparticles is reached, and the local susceptibility peaks at a coherence energy predicted for a correlated Hund metal by first-principles many-body theory. Scattering between electrons and orbital and spin fluctuations in MnSi can be understood at the local level to generate its non-Fermi liquid character. These results provide crucial insight into the role of interorbital Hund’s exchange within the broader class of enigmatic multiband itinerant, weak ferromagnets.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000104651
Veröffentlicht am 18.06.2020
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16868-4
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für QuantenMaterialien und Technologien (IQMT)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2020
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2041-1723
KITopen-ID: 1000104651
HGF-Programm 43.21.01 (POF III, LK 01) Quantum Correlations in Condensed Matter
Erschienen in Nature Communications
Verlag Nature Research
Band 11
Seiten Article: 3076
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