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    Soft and hard x-ray orbital-resolved photoemission study of a strongly correlated Cd-Ce quasicrystal approximant

    Goro Nozue1,2,*,†, Hidenori Fujiwara1,2,3, Satoru Hamamoto2, Miwa Tsutsumi1,2, Akane Ose1,2, Takayuki Kiss1, Atsushi Higashiya2,4, Atsushi Yamasaki2,5, Yuina Kanai-Nakata2,6 et al.

    Shin Imada2,6, Masaki Oura2, Kenji Tamasaku2, Makina Yabashi2, Tetsuya Ishikawa2, Farid Labib7, Shintaro Suzuki8,‡, Ryuji Tamura8, and Akira Sekiyama1,2,3

    • *Contact author: goro.nozue@uni-wuerzburg.de
    • †Present address: Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.
    • ‡Present address: Department of Physics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5258, Japan.

    Phys. Rev. B 113, 205147 – Published 26 May, 2026

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/4bz3-ccqt

    Abstract

    We have investigated the orbital-dependent electronic states of Cd6Ce, a prototype of strongly correlated rare-earth-based Tsai-type quasicrystals and approximants (ACs) by soft and hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy. Our results reveal that the 4f orbitals are predominantly hybridized with the valence-band electrons far from the Fermi level (EF), in sharp contrast to the hybridization with conduction electrons at EF seen for the intermetallic Ce-based compounds. This anomalous hybridization should be taken into account in discussing the unresolved magnetic ground state in Cd6Ce. These findings suggest that Cd-based ACs, some of which show the multistep magnetic transitions, could provide a new platform for investigating novel magnetic properties that cannot be understood within the conventional framework of hybridization at EF.

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