Incoherent Spectral Weight Emerging from a Van Hove Singularity in a Kagome Metal

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Waterfall-like spectral features observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) are commonly associated with strong electronic correlations or electron-boson coupling. Here, we investigate this connection in the kagome metal LuFe6Ge6, a structurally simple member of the FeGe-derived family, using polarization-dependent ARPES, density functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory. We observe a pronounced vertical spectral feature at the L point extending over several hundred meV in binding energy. Its orbital character is identified as predominantly Fe dyz, and its energy onset coincides with a van Hove singularity located approximately 0.3 eV below EF . Despite the waterfall-like spectral response, dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) reveals only weak electronic correlations, while the calculated electronic structure closely reproduces the experimental bulk bands. We propose that the anomalous spectral weight may arise from inelastic scattering of the outgoing photoelectrons, potentially associated with the large density of states near the van Hove singularity. Our results suggest that waterfall-like features can emerge without strong electronic correlations and highlight the possible role of the underlying band structure and photoelectron energy-loss processes in their interpretation.

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@misc{lim2026incoherent,
  title = {{Incoherent Spectral Weight Emerging from a Van Hove Singularity in a Kagome Metal}},
  author = {C. -y. Lim and J. Deng and A. Korshunov and A. Kar and D. Subires and H. Li and Y. Jiang and H. Hu and E. Modin and P. Törmä and A. Kumar-Sharma and C. Shekhar and A. Louat and T. K. Kim and C. Felser and B. Andrei Bernevig and S. Blanco-Canosa},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.08356},
  eprint = {2610.08356},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08356},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Incoherent Spectral Weight Emerging from a Van Hove Singularity in a Kagome Metal
AU  - C. -y. Lim
AU  - J. Deng
AU  - A. Korshunov
AU  - A. Kar
AU  - D. Subires
AU  - H. Li
AU  - Y. Jiang
AU  - H. Hu
AU  - E. Modin
AU  - P. Törmä
AU  - A. Kumar-Sharma
AU  - C. Shekhar
AU  - A. Louat
AU  - T. K. Kim
AU  - C. Felser
AU  - B. Andrei Bernevig
AU  - S. Blanco-Canosa
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/06
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.08356
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08356
AB  - Waterfall-like spectral features observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) are commonly associated with strong electronic correlations or electron-boson coupling. Here, we investigate this connection in the kagome metal LuFe6Ge6, a structurally simple member of the FeGe-derived family, using polarization-dependent ARPES, density functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory. We observe a pronounced vertical spectral feature at the L point extending over several hundred meV in binding energy. Its orbital character is identified as predominantly Fe dyz, and its energy onset coincides with a van Hove singularity located approximately 0.3 eV below EF . Despite the waterfall-like spectral response, dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) reveals only weak electronic correlations, while the calculated electronic structure closely reproduces the experimental bulk bands. We propose that the anomalous spectral weight may arise from inelastic scattering of the outgoing photoelectrons, potentially associated with the large density of states near the van Hove singularity. Our results suggest that waterfall-like features can emerge without strong electronic correlations and highlight the possible role of the underlying band structure and photoelectron energy-loss processes in their interpretation.
ER  -

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