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Shuting Peng, Yulei Han, Ganesh Pokharel, Jianchang Shen, Zeyu Li, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Brenden R. Ortiz, Yang Luo, Houchen Li, Mingyao Guo, Bingqian Wang, Shengtao Cui, Zhe Sun, Zhenhua Qiao, Stephen D. Wilson, Junfeng He
Abstract
We report angle resolved photoemission experiments on a newly discovered family of kagome metals RV_{6}Sn_{6} (R=Gd, Ho). Intrinsic bulk states and surface states of the vanadium kagome layer are differentiated from those of other atomic sublattices by the real-space resolution of the measurements with a small beam spot. Characteristic Dirac cone, saddle point, and flat bands of the kagome lattice are observed. Our results establish the two-dimensional (2D) kagome surface states as a new platform to investigate the intrinsic kagome physics.