- Neupane, Madhab;
- Alidoust, Nasser;
- Belopolski, Ilya;
- Bian, Guang;
- Xu, Su-Yang;
- Kim, Dae-Jeong;
- Shibayev, Pavel P;
- Sanchez, Daniel S;
- Zheng, Hao;
- Chang, Tay-Rong;
- Jeng, Horng-Tay;
- Riseborough, Peter S;
- Lin, Hsin;
- Bansil, Arun;
- Durakiewicz, Tomasz;
- Fisk, Zachary;
- Hasan, M Zahid
Rare-earth hexaborides have attracted considerable attention recently in connection to a variety of correlated phenomena including heavy fermions, superconductivity, and low-temperature magnetic phases. Here, we present high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies of trivalent CeB6 and divalent BaB6 rare-earth hexaborides. We find that the Fermi surface electronic structure of CeB6 consists of large oval-shaped pockets around the X points of the Brillouin zone, whereas the states around the zone center Γ point are strongly renormalized. Our first-principles calculations agree with our experimental results around the X points but not around the Γ point, indicating areas of strong renormalization located near Γ. The Ce quasiparticle states participate in the formation of hot spots at the Fermi surface, whereas the incoherent f states hybridize and lead to the emergence of dispersive features absent in the non-f counterpart BaB6. Our results provide an understanding of the electronic structure in rare-earth hexaborides, which will be useful in elucidating the nature of the exotic low-temperature phases in these materials.