Multiple mobile excitons manifested as sidebands in quasi-one-dimensional metallic TaSe3

Charge neutrality and their expected itinerant nature makes excitons potential transmitters of information. However, exciton mobility remains inaccessible to traditional optical experiments that only create and detect excitons with negligible momentum. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectr...

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Published in:Nature materials 2022-04, Vol.21 (4), p.423-429
Main Authors: Ma, Junzhang, Nie, Simin, Gui, Xin, Naamneh, Muntaser, Jandke, Jasmin, Xi, Chuanying, Zhang, Jinglei, Shang, Tian, Xiong, Yimin, Kapon, Itzik, Kumar, Neeraj, Soh, Yona, Gosálbez-Martínez, Daniel, Yazyev, Oleg V., Fan, Wenhui, Hübener, Hannes, Giovannini, Umberto De, Plumb, Nicholas Clark, Radovic, Milan, Sentef, Michael Andreas, Xie, Weiwei, Wang, Zhijun, Mudry, Christopher, Müller, Markus, Shi, Ming
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Language:English
Subjects:
Carrier density
Chemistry
Conduction bands
Conduction electrons
Electrons
Excitons
Materials Science
Photoelectric emission
Physics
Sidebands
Transmitters
Valence band
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Summary:Charge neutrality and their expected itinerant nature makes excitons potential transmitters of information. However, exciton mobility remains inaccessible to traditional optical experiments that only create and detect excitons with negligible momentum. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we detect dispersing excitons in the quasi-one-dimensional metallic trichalcogenide, TaSe3. The low density of conduction electrons and the low dimensionality in TaSe3 combined with a polaronic renormalization of the conduction band and the poorly screened interaction between these polarons and photo-induced valence holes leads to various excitonic bound states that we interpret as intrachain and interchain excitons, and possibly trions. The thresholds for the formation of a photo-hole together with an exciton appear as side valence bands with dispersions nearly parallel to the main valence band, but shifted to lower excitation energies. The energy separation between side and main valence bands can be controlled by surface doping, enabling the tuning of certain exciton properties.Mobile excitons in metals have been elusive, as screening usually suppresses their formation. Here, the authors demonstrate such mobile bound states in quasi-one-dimensional metallic TaSe3, taking advantage of its low dimensionality and carrier density.
ISSN:1476-1122
1476-4660
DOI:10.1038/s41563-022-01201-9