Hybridization Effects Revealed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy in Heavy-Fermion Ce2IrIn8**Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant Nos 2016YFA0401000, 2015CB921300, 2016YFA0300303, 2016YFA0401002 and 2017YFA0303103, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11674371, 11774401 and 11874330, the Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No XDB07000000, and

Abstract

We utilize high-resolution resonant angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to study the band structure and hybridization effect of the heavy-fermion compound Ce2IrIn8. We observe a nearly flat band at the binding energy of 7 meV below the coherent temperature , which characterizes the electrical resistance maximum and indicates the onset temperature of hybridization. However, the Fermi vector and the Fermi surface volume have little change around Tcoh, which challenges the widely believed evolution from a high-temperature small Fermi surface to a low-temperature large Fermi surface. Our experimental results of the band structure fit well with the density functional theory plus dynamic mean-field theory calculations.