Université de Fribourg

Dramatic effective mass reduction driven by a strong potential of competing periodicity

Monney, Claude ; Schwier, Eike Fabian ; Garnier, Michael G. ; Battaglia, C. ; Mariotti, N. ; Didiot, Clément ; Cercellier, H. ; Marcus, J. ; Berger, H. ; Titov, A. N. ; Beck, Hans ; Aebi, Philipp

In: Europhysics Letters, 2010, vol. 92, no. 4, p. 47003

We present angle-resolved photoemission experiments on 1T-TiSe₂ at temperatures ranging from 13 K to 288 K. The data evidence a dramatic renormalization of the conduction band below 100 K, whose origin can be related to the new potential responsible for the charge density wave phase at low temperature in this system. The renormalization translates into a substantial effective mass...