Competing electronic instabilities lie at the heart of emergent phenomena in quantum materials. In low-dimensional metals, Fermi-surface nesting can drive charge density wave (CDW) formation through a Peierls-like mechanism, while in strongly correlated systems, Kondo hybridization reconstructs the electronic structure by entangling localized moments with itinerant electrons. How these two fundamentally different instabilities interact−whether they coexist, compete, or mutually exclude each other−remains an open question. Here, we present suppression of charge density wave via the Kondo interaction in van der Waals material UTe3. The angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data reveals Fermi surface nesting under similar conditions as seen in RETe3 compounds. Despite that, no CDW is found in UTe3 after an extensive search. We demonstrate that strong hybridization between U 5f electrons and Te p states reconstructs the low-energy electronic structure, removes the instability, and preempts CDW formation. Our results reveal a rare example where Kondo hybridization preempts density wave formation, offering a new route to controlling ordering phenomena in correlated 2D materials.
@article{arxiv.2603.03509,
title = {Kondo driven suppression of charge density wave in Van der Waals material UTe$_3$},
author = {Justin Shotton and Jiahui Zhu and David Martinez and Diana Golovanova and Dipanjan Chaudhuri and Xuefei Guo and Peter Abbamonte and Feng Ye and Yiqing Hao and Huibo Cao and Suk Hyun Sung and Carly Grossman and Ismail El Baggari and Gal Tuvia and Mengke Liu and Ruizhe Kang and Matt Boswell and Weiwei Xie and Debapratim Pal and Anil Kumar and Yun Suk Eo and Binghai Yan and Kai Sun and Jonathan Denlinger and Sheng Ran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03509},
year = {2026}
}