Fermi Surface Nesting Driving the RKKY Interaction in the Centrosymmetric Skyrmion Magnet Gd_{2}PdSi_{3}.

The magnetic skyrmions generated in a centrosymmetric crystal were recently first discovered in Gd_{2}PdSi_{3}. In light of this, we observe the electronic structure by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and unveil its direct relationship with the magnetism in this compound. The Fermi surface and band dispersions are demonstrated to have a good agreement with the density functional theory calculations carried out with careful consideration of the crystal superstructure. Most importantly, we find that the three-dimensional Fermi surface has extended nesting which matches well the q vector of the magnetic order detected by recent scattering measurements. The consistency we find among angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, density functional theory, and the scattering measurements suggests the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction involving itinerant electrons to be the formation mechanism of skyrmions in Gd_{2}PdSi_{3}.