In: Physical Review B, 2018, vol. 97, no. 11, p. 115154
Femtosecond time-resolved midinfrared reflectivity is used to investigate the electron and phonon dynamics occurring at the direct band gap of the excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5 below the critical temperature of its structural phase transition. We find that the phonon dynamics show a strong coupling to the excitation of free carriers at the Γ point of the Brillouin zone. The optical response...
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In: Physical Review B, 2018, vol. 97, no. 7, p. 075110
We present a time-resolved angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy study of IrTe2, which undergoes two first-order structural and charge-ordered phase transitions on cooling below 270 K and below 180 K. The possibility of inducing a phase transition by photoexcitation with near-infrared femtosecond pulses is investigated in the charge-ordered phases. We observe changes of the spectral...
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In: Physical Review Letters, 2017, vol. 119, no. 8, p. 086401
We report on the nonequilibrium dynamics of the electronic structure of the layered semiconductor Ta2NiSe5 investigated by time- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. We show that below the critical excitation density of FC=0.2 mJ cm−2, the band gap narrows transiently, while it is enhanced above FC. Hartree-Fock calculations reveal that this effect can be explained by the presence...
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In: Physical Review B, 2013, vol. 88, no. 7, p. 075138
We address the question of the origin of the recently discovered chiral property of the charge-density-wave phase in 1T-TiSe₂, which so far lacks a microscopic understanding. We argue that the lattice degrees of freedom seem to be crucial for this novel phenomenon. We motivate a theoretical model that takes into account one valence and three conduction bands, a strongly screened Coulomb...
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In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2012, vol. 85, no. 23, p. 235150
To address the fluctuation regime above the critical temperature of the charge-density-wave phase of 1T-TiSe₂, we perform calculations using the Bethe-Salpeter equation for treating strong electron-hole correlations. Calculated photoemission intensity maps are in good agreement with the measured ones and provide a deeper understanding of the phase transition in terms of an electronic...
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In: Physical Review B - Condensed matter and materials physics, 2012, vol. 85, no. 19, p. 195111
We present both theoretical ab-initio results within the Hedin's GW approximation and experimental angle-resolved photoemission and scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on TiSe₂. With respect to the density-functional Kohn-Sham metallic picture, the many-body GW self-energy leads to a ≈0.2-eV band-gap insulator consistent with our STS spectra at 5 K. The highest valence and the lowest...
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In: Physical Review Letters, 2011, vol. 106, no. 10, p. 106404
We address the lattice deformation of 1T-TiSe₂ within the exciton condensate phase. We show that, at low temperature, condensed excitons influence the lattice through electron-phonon interaction. It is found that at zero temperature, in the exciton condensate phase of 1T-TiSe₂, this exciton condensate exerts a force on the lattice generating ionic displacements comparable in amplitude to what...
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In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2011, vol. 23, no. 13, p. 135003
Using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy we investigate the electronic valence band structure of the Si(331)-(12 × 1) surface reconstruction for which we recently proposed a structural model containing silicon pentamers as elementary structural building blocks. We find that this surface, reported to be metallic in a previous study, shows a clear band gap at the Fermi energy, indicating...
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In: Physical Review B, 2010, vol. 81, no. 15, p. 1551104
The charge-density-wave phase transition of 1T-TiSe₂ is studied by angle-resolved photoemission over a wide temperature range. An important chemical-potential shift which strongly evolves with temperature is evidenced. In the framework of the exciton condensate phase, the detailed temperature dependence of the associated order parameter is extracted. Having a mean-field-like behavior at low...
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In: Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2009, vol. 404, no. 19, p. 3172-3175
Recently, detailed calculations of the excitonic insulator phase model adapted to the case of 1T-TiSe2 have been presented. Through the spectral function theoretical photoemission intensity maps can be generated which are in very good agreement with experiment [H. Cercellier, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 146403]. In this model, excitons condensate in a BCS-like manner and give rise to a...
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