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Kondo Holes in the Two-Dimensional Itinerant Ising Ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2
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posted on 2024-11-17, 13:00 authored by Mengting Zhao, Bin Bin Chen, Yilian Xi, Yanyan Zhao, Hang Xu, Hongrun Zhang, Ningyan Cheng, Haifeng Feng, Jincheng Zhuang, Feng Pan, Xun Xu, Weichang Hao, Wei Li, Si Zhou, Shi Xue Dou, Yi DuHeavy Fermion (HF) states emerge in correlated quantum materials due to the intriguing interplay between localized magnetic moments and itinerant electrons but rarely appear in 3d-electron systems due to high itinerancy of d-electrons. Here, an anomalous enhancement of Kondo screening is observed at the Kondo hole of local Fe vacancies in Fe3GeTe2 which is a recently discovered 3d-HF system featuring Kondo lattice and two-dimensional itinerant ferromagnetism. An itinerant Kondo-Ising model is established to reproduce the experimental results and provides insight into the competition between Ising ferromagnetism and Kondo screening. Our work explains the microscopic origin of the d-electron HF states in Fe3GeTe2 and inspires future studies of the enriched quantum many-body effects with Kondo holes.