Tuesday, April 23, 2013

1304.5843 (Andreas König et al.)

Peculiar Doping Dependence of the Plasmon Dispersion in
2H-Tantalum-Diselenide
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Andreas König, Roman Schuster, Martin Knupfer, Bernd Büchner, Helmuth Berger
Inelastic electron scattering is applied to investigate the impact of potassium intercalation on the charge carrier plasmon energy and dispersion in the charge-density wave (CDW) bearing compound 2H-tantalum-diselenide. We observe an unususal doping dependence of the plasmon dispersion, which even changes sign upon alkali addition. In contrast to the continous energy shift of the plasmon position upon doping at lowest momentum transfer, its dispersion changes in a rather discontinuous manner. We argue that the observed dynamics can only be explained in a picture, where complex phenomena are taken into account including the suppression of the CDW upon doping as well as the interplay of the CDW and the plasma resonance.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5843

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