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Complete d-Band Dispersion and the Mobile Fermion Scale in NaxCoO2

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We utilize fine-tuned polarization selection coupled with excitation-energy variation of photoelectron signal to image the \textit{complete d}-band dispersion relation in sodium cobaltates. A hybridization gap anticrossing is observed along the Brillouin zone corner and the full quasiparticle band is found to emerge as a many-body entity lacking a pure orbital polarization. At low dopings, the quasiparticle bandwidth (Fermion scale, many-body \textit{EF_F} \sim 0.25 eV) is found to be smaller than most known oxide metals. The low-lying density of states is found to be in agreement with bulk-sensitive thermodynamic measurements for nonmagnetic dopings where the 2D Luttinger theorem is also observed to be satisfied.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0611621,
  title  = {Complete d-Band Dispersion and the Mobile Fermion Scale in NaxCoO2},
  author = {D. Qian and L. Wray and D. Hsieh and L. Viciu and R. J. Cava and J. L. Luo and D. Wu and N. L. Wang and M. Z. Hasan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0611621},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4+ pages, 5 Figs