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Evidence for two separate energy gaps in underdoped high-temperature cuprate superconductors from broadband infrared ellipsometry

Yu, Li ; Munzar, D. ; Boris, A. V. ; Yordanov, P. ; Chaloupka, J. ; Wolf, Th. ; Lin, C. T. ; Keimer, B. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review Letters, 2008, vol. 100, p. 177004

We present broadband infrared ellipsometry measurements of the c-axis conductivity of underdoped RBa₂Cu₃O₇₋δ (R=Y, Nd, and La) single crystals. Our data show that separate energy scales are underlying the redistributions of spectral weight due to the normal state pseudogap and the superconducting gap. Furthermore, they provide evidence that these gaps do not...

Infrared ellipsometry study of the confined electrons in a high-mobility γ-Al₂O₃/SrTiO₃ heterostructure

Yazdi-Rizi, Meghdad ; Maršík, Premysl ; Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Dubroka, Adam ; Christensen, D. V. ; Chen, Y. Z. ; Pryds, N. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2016, vol. 113, no. 4, p. 47005

With infrared ellipsometry we studied the response of the confined electrons in γ-Al₂O₃/SrTiO₃ (GAO/STO) heterostructures in which they originate predominantly from oxygen vacancies. From the analysis of a so-called Berreman mode, that develops near the highest longitudinal optical phonon mode of SrTiO₃, we derive the sheet carrier density, N s , the...

Infrared ellipsometry study of photogenerated charge carriers at the (001) and (110) surfaces of $\mathrm{SrTi}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ crystals and at the interface of the corresponding $\mathrm{LaAl}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}/\mathrm{SrTi}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ heterostructures

Yazdi-Rizi, Meghdad ; Maršík, Premysl ; Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Sen, Kaushik ; Cerreta, A. ; Dubroka, Adam ; Scigaj, M. ; Sánchez, F. ; Herranz, G. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2017, vol. 95, no. 19, p. 195107

With infrared (IR) ellipsometry and dc resistance measurements, we investigated the photodoping at the (001) and (110) surfaces of SrTiO3 (STO) single crystals and at the corresponding interfaces of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) heterostructures. In the bare STO crystals, we find that the photogenerated charge carriers, which accumulate near the (001) surface, have a similar depth profile and sheet...

Anisotropy of infrared-active phonon modes in the monodomain state of tetragonal ${\mathrm{SrTiO}}_{3}$ (110)

Yazdi-Rizi, Meghdad ; Maršík, Premysl ; Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2017, vol. 95, no. 2, p. 024105

With infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) ellipsometry we investigated the anisotropy of the IR-active phonon modes in ${\mathrm{SrTiO}}_{3}$ (110) single crystals in the tetragonal state below the so-called antiferrodistortive transition at T∗=105 K. In particular, we show that the anisotropy of the oscillator strength of the so-called R mode, which becomes weakly IR active below T∗, is a...

Band-selective clean-limit and dirty-limit superconductivity with nodeless gaps in the bilayer iron-based superconductor ${\mathrm{CsCa}}_{2}{\mathrm{Fe}}_{4}{\mathrm{As}}_{4}{\mathrm{F}}_{2}$

Xu, Bing ; Wang, Z. C. ; Sheveleva, Evgeniia ; Lyzwa, Fryderyk ; Marsik, Premysl ; Cao, G. H. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2019, vol. 99, no. 12, p. 125119

Optical signature of a crossover from Mott- to Slater-type gap in ${\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}{\mathrm{Ir}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Rh}}_{x}{\mathrm{O}}_{4}$

Xu, Bîng ; Marsik, Premysl ; Sheveleva, Evgeniia ; Lyzwa, Fryderyk ; Louat, A. ; Brouet, V. ; Munzar, Dominik ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review Letters, 2020, vol. 124, no. 2, p. 027402

With optical spectroscopy we provide evidence that the insulator-metal transition in Sr2Ir1−xRhxO4 occurs close to a crossover from the Mott- to the Slater-type. The Mott gap at x=0 persists to high temperature and evolves without an anomaly across the Néel temperature, TN. Upon Rh doping, it collapses rather rapidly and vanishes around x=0.055. Notably, just as the Mott gap vanishes yet...

Optical study of Dirac fermions and related phonon anomalies in the antiferromagnetic compound CaFeAsF

Xu, Bing ; Xiao, H. ; Gao, B. ; Ma, Y. H. ; Mu, G. ; Marsik, Premysl ; Sheveleva, Evgeniia ; Lyzwa, Fryderyk ; Dai, Y. M. ; Lobo, R. P. S. M. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review B, 2018, vol. 97, no. 19, p. 195110

We performed optical studies on CaFeAsF single crystals, a parent compound of the 1111-type iron-based superconductors that undergoes a structural phase transition from tetragonal to orthorhombic at Ts=121 K and a magnetic one to a spin density wave (SDW) state at TN=110 K. In the low-temperature optical conductivity spectrum, after the subtraction of a narrow Drude peak, we observe a...

Temperature-driven topological phase transition and intermediate Dirac semimetal phase in ${\mathrm{ZrTe}}_{5}$

Xu, Bing ; Zhao, L. X. ; Maršík, Premysl ; Sheveleva, Evgeniia ; Lyzwa, Fryderyk ; Dai, Y. M. ; Chen, G. F. ; Qiu, X. G. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review Letters, 2018, vol. 121, no. 18, p. 187401

We present an infrared spectroscopy study of ZrTe5, which confirms a recent theoretical proposal that this material exhibits a temperature-driven topological quantum phase transition from a weak to a strong topological insulating state with an intermediate Dirac semimetal state around Tp ≃ 138 K. Our study details the temperature evolution of the energy gap in the bulk electronic structure....

Optical signatures of multifold fermions in the chiral topological semimetal CoSi

Xu, Bing ; Fang, Zhenyao ; Sánchez-Martínez, Miguel-Angel ; Venderbos, Jorn W. F. ; Ni, Zhuoliang ; Qiu, Tian ; Manna, Kaustuv ; Wang, Kefeng ; Paglione, Johnpierre ; Bernhard, Christian ; Felser, Claudia ; Mele, Eugene J. ; Grushin, Adolfo G. ; Rappe, Andrew M. ; Wu, Liang

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020, vol. 117, no. 44, p. 27104–27110

We report the optical conductivity in high-quality crystals of the chiral topological semimetal CoSi, which hosts exotic quasiparticles known as multifold fermions. We find that the optical response is separated into several distinct regions as a function of frequency, each dominated by different types of quasiparticles. The low-frequency intraband response is captured by a narrow Drude peak...

Scaling of the Fano effect of the in-plane Fe-As phonon and the superconducting critical temperature in ${\mathrm{Ba}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{K}}_{x}{\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}{\mathrm{As}}_{2}$

Xu, Bing ; Cappelluti, E. ; Benfatto, Larra ; Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Marsik, Premysl ; Sheveleva, Evgeniia ; Lyzwa, Fryderyk ; Wolf, Thomas ; Yang, Rui ; Qiu, X. G. ; Dai, Y. M. ; Wen, H. H. ; Lobo, R. P. S. M. ; Bernhard, Christian

In: Physical Review Letters, 2019, vol. 122, no. 21, p. 217002

By means of infrared spectroscopy, we determine the temperature-doping phase diagram of the Fano effect for the in-plane Fe-As stretching mode in Ba1−xKxFe2As2. The Fano parameter 1=q2, which is a measure of the phonon coupling to the electronic particle-hole continuum, shows a remarkable sensitivity to the magnetic and structural orderings at low temperatures. Most strikingly, at elevated...