Tuesday, January 8, 2013

1301.0972 (Takeshi Kondo et al.)

Anomalous dressing of Dirac fermions in the topological surface state of
Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, and CuxBi2Se3
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Takeshi Kondo, Y. Nakashima, Y. Ota, Y. Ishida, W. Malaeb, K. Okazaki, S. Shin, M. Kriener, Satoshi Sasaki, Kouji Segawa, Yoichi Ando
Quasiparticle dynamics on the topological surface state of Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, and superconducting CuxBi2Se3 are studied by 7 eV laser-based angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We find strong mode-couplings in the Dirac-cone surface states at energies of ~3 and ~15-20 meV, which leads to an exceptionally large coupling constant of ~3, which is one of the strongest ever reported for any material. This result is compatible with the recent observation of a strong Kohn anomaly in the surface phonon dispersion of Bi2Se3, but it appears that the theoretically proposed "spin-plasmon" excitations realized in helical metals are also playing an important role. Intriguingly, the ~3 meV mode coupling is found to be enhanced in the superconducting state of CuxBi2Se3.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0972

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