Publications (45)
Unveiling new systematics in the self-assembly of atomic chains on Si(111)
C. Battaglia, H. Cercellier, C. Monney +3
Self-assembled arrays of atomic chains on Si(111) represent a fascinating family of nanostructures with quasi-one-dimensional electronic properties. These surface reconstructions a…
Chiral charge order in 1-TiSe: importance of lattice degrees of freedom
B. Zenker, H. Fehske, H. Beck +2
We address the question of the origin of the recently discovered chiral property of the charge-density-wave phase in 1-TiSe which so far lacks a microscopic understanding. W…
Spontaneous exciton condensation in 1T-TiSe2: a BCS-like approach
C. Monney, H. Cercellier, F. Clerc +9
Recently strong evidence has been found in favor of a BCS-like condensation of excitons in 1\textit{T}-TiSe. Theoretical photoemission intensity maps have been generated by the…
Intense paramagnon excitations in a large family of high-temperature superconductors
M. Le Tacon, G. Ghiringhelli, J. Chaloupka +17
In the search for the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity, intense research has been focused on the evolution of the spin excitation spectrum upon doping from the antif…
Floquet topological state induced by light-driven band inversion in SnTe
F. Chassot, G. Kremer, A. Pulkkinen +7
High intensity coherent light can dress matter, realizing new hybrid phases that are not accessible in equilibrium. This effect results from the coherent interaction between Bloch…
High-energy magnetic excitations in BiSrCaCuO: Towards a unified description of the electronic and magnetic degrees of freedom in the cuprates
M. P. M. Dean, A. J. A. James, R. S. Springell +10
We investigate the high-energy magnetic excitation spectrum of the high- cuprate superconductor BiSrCaCuO (Bi-2212) using Cu edge resonant inelastic…
Spin excitations in a single LaCuO layer
M. P. M. Dean, R. S. Springell, C. Monney +9
The dynamics of S=1/2 quantum spins on a 2D square lattice lie at the heart of the mystery of the cuprates \cite{Hayden2004,Vignolle2007,Li2010,LeTacon2011,Coldea2001,Headings2010,…
Observation of a uniaxial strain-induced phase transition in the 2D topological semimetal IrTe
C. W. Nicholson, M. Rumo, A. Pulkkinen +12
Strain is ubiquitous in solid-state materials, but despite its fundamental importance and technological relevance, leveraging externally applied strain to gain control over materia…
Persistent high-energy spin excitations in iron pnictide superconductors
K. J. Zhou, Y. B. Huang, C. Monney +10
Motivated by the premise that superconductivity in iron-based superconductors is unconventional and mediated by spin fluctuations, an intense research effort has been focused on ch…
Dramatic effective mass reduction driven by strong electronic correlations
C. Monney, E. F. Schwier, M. G. Garnier +9
We present angle-resolved photoemission experiments on 1T-TiSe2 at temperatures ranging from 13K to 288K. The data evidence a dramatic renormalization of the conduction band below…
Influence of elastic scattering on the measurement of core-level binding energy dispersion in x-ray photoemission spectroscopy
E. F. Schwier, C. Monney, N. Mariotti +5
In the light of recent measurements of the C 1s core level dispersion in graphene [Nat. Phys. 6, 345 (2010)], we explore the interplay between the elastic scattering of photoelectr…
Ultrafast Dynamics of the Surface Photovoltage in Potassium Doped Black Phosphorus
G. Kremer, M. Rumo, C. Yue +6
Black phosphorus is a quasi-two-dimensional layered semiconductor with a narrow direct band gap of 0.3 eV. A giant surface Stark effect can be produced by the potassium doping of b…
Impact of Electron-Hole Correlations on the 1T-TiSe2 Electronic Structure
G. Monney, C. Monney, B. Hildebrand +2
Several experiments have been performed on 1T-TiSe2 in order to identify whether the electronic structure is semimetallic or semiconducting without reaching a consensus. In this pa…
Unveiling the Semimetallic Nature of 1-TiSe by Doping its Charge Density Wave
T. Jaouen, M. Rumo, B. Hildebrand +10
The semimetallic or semiconducting nature of the transition metal dichalcogenide 1-TiSe remains under debate after many decades mainly due to the fluctuating nature of its 2…
Evidence for an excitonic insulator phase in 1T-TiSe
H. Cercellier, C. Monney, F. Clerc +7
We present a new high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission study of 1\textit{T}-TiSe in both, its room-temperature, normal phase and its low-temperature, charge-density wa…
Nature of native atomic defects in ZrTe and their impact on the low-energy electronic structure
B. Salzmann, A. Pulkkinen, B. Hildebrand +9
Over the past decades, investigations of the anomalous low-energy electronic properties of ZrTe have reached a wide array of conclusions. An open question is the growth method'…
Revealing the role of electrons and phonons in the ultrafast recovery of charge density wave correlations in 1-TiSe
C. Monney, M. Puppin, C. W. Nicholson +8
Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with selective near- and mid-infrared photon excitations, we investigate the femtosecond dynamics of the charge density wa…
Many-body effects in TiSe2: Can GW describe an Excitonic Insulator?
M. Cazzaniga, H. Cercellier, M. Holzmann +4
We present both theoretical ab initio GW and experimental angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) and scanning tunneling (STS) spectroscopy results on TiSe2. With respect to the densi…
Bonding states underpinning structural transitions in IrTe observed with micro-ARPES
C. W. Nicholson, M. D. Watson, A. Pulkkinen +6
Competing interactions in low-dimensional materials can produce nearly degenerate electronic and structural phases. We investigate the staircase of structural phase transitions in…
Insensitivity of the striped charge-orders in IrTe to alkali surface doping implies their structural origin
M. Rumo, A. Pulkkinen, B. Salzmann +7
We present a combined angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) study of the prominent transition metal dichalcogenide IrTe upon pota…
A resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of the spin and charge excitations in the overdoped superconductor La1.77Sr0.23CuO4
C. Monney, T. Schmitt, C. E. Matt +5
We present a resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) study of spin and charge excitations in overdoped La1.77Sr0.23CuO4 along two high-symmetry directions. The line shape of the…
Stabilization of silicon honeycomb chains by trivalent adsorbates
C. Battaglia, H. Cercellier, C. Monney +2
The atomic structure of self-assembled quasi-one-dimensional Gd chains on Si(111) has been investigated by low-energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy. Based…
Probing the interplay between lattice dynamics and short-range magnetic correlations in CuGeO3 with femtosecond RIXS
E. Paris, C. W. Nicholson, S. Johnston +13
Investigations of magnetically ordered phases on the femtosecond timescale have provided significant insights into the influence of charge and lattice degrees of freedom on the mag…
Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of solids in the extreme ultraviolet at 500 kHz repetition rate
M. Puppin, Y. Deng, C. W. Nicholson +8
Time- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (trARPES) employing a 500 kHz extreme-ultravioled (XUV) light source operating at 21.7 eV probe photon energy is reported. Based…
Mapping the unoccupied state dispersions in TaNiSe with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
C. Monney, M. Herzog, A. Pulkkinen +8
The transition metal chalcogenide TaNiSe undergoes a second-order phase transition at K involving a small lattice distortion. Below , a band gap at the cente…
Ultrafast spin density wave transition in Chromium governed by thermalized electron gas
C. W. Nicholson, C. Monney, R. Carley +4
The energy and momentum selectivity of time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is exploited to address the ultrafast dynamics of the antiferromagnetic spin density wave…
Ultrafast recovery dynamics of dimer stripes in IrTe2
M. Rumo, G. Kremer, M. Heber +10
The transition metal dichalcogenide IrTe2 displays a remarkable series of first-order phase transitions below room temperature, involving lattice displacements as large as 20 perce…
Non-uniform doping across the Fermi surface of NbS intercalates
C. Battaglia, H. Cercellier, L. Despont +6
Magnetic ordering of the first row transition metal intercalates of NbS due to coupling between the conduction electrons and the intercalated ions has been explained in terms o…
Excited-state band structure mapping
M. Puppin, C. W. Nicholson, C. Monney +10
Angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy is an extremely powerful probe of materials to access the occupied electronic structure with energy and momentum resolution. However, it r…
Examining the surface phase diagram of IrTe with photoemission
M. Rumo, C. W. Nicholson, A. Pulkkinen +13
In the transition metal dichalcogenide IrTe, low-temperature charge-ordered phase transitions involving Ir dimers lead to the occurrence of stripe phases of different periodici…
Comment on `Oxygen vacancy-induced magnetic moment in edge-sharing CuO chains of LiCuO'
R. O. Kuzian, R. Klingeler, W. E. A. Lorenz +23
In a recent work devoted to the magnetism of LiCuO, Shu et al. [New J. Phys. 19 (2017) 023026] have proposed a "simplified" unfrustrated microscopic model that differs…
Multiband one-dimensional electronic structure and spectroscopic signature of Tomonoga-Luttinger liquid behavior in KCrAs
M. D. Watson, Y. Feng, C. W. Nicholson +8
We present Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy measurements of the quasi-one dimensional superconductor KCrAs. We find that the Fermi surface contains two Fermi s…
Evolution of the SrTiO surface electronic state as a function of LaAlO overlayer thickness
N. C. Plumb, M. Kobayashi, M. Salluzzo +10
The novel electronic properties emerging at interfaces between transition metal oxides, and in particular the discovery of conductivity in heterostructures composed of LaAlO (L…
Temperature dependence of the excitonic insulator phase model in 1T-TiSe2
C. Monney, H. Cercellier, F. Clerc +6
Recently, detailed calculations of the excitonic insulator phase model adapted to the case of 1\textit{T}-TiSe have been presented. Through the spectral function theoretical ph…
Carrier-Density Control of the Quantum-Confined 1-TiSe Charge-Density-Wave
T. Jaouen, A. Pulkkinen, M. Rumo +9
Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, combined with first principle and coupled self-consistent Poisson-Schrödinger calculations, we demonstrate that potassium (K) atom…
Semimetal-to-semiconductor transition and charge-density-wave melting in -TiSeS single crystals
M. -L. Mottas, T. Jaouen, B. Hildebrand +9
The transition metal dichalcogenide -TiSe is a quasi-two-dimensional layered material with a phase transition towards a commensurate charge density wave (CDW) at a critical…
Damped spin excitations in a doped cuprate superconductor with orbital hybridization
O. Ivashko, N. E. Shaik, X. Lu +13
A resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) study of overdamped spin-excitations in slightly underdoped LaSrCuO (LSCO) with and is presented. Th…
Spin-Orbital Separation in the quasi 1D Mott-insulator Sr2CuO3
J. Schlappa, K. Wohlfeld, K. J. Zhou +13
As an elementary particle the electron carries spin \hbar/2 and charge e. When binding to the atomic nucleus it also acquires an angular momentum quantum number corresponding to th…
Phase Separation in the Vicinity of Fermi Surface Hot Spots
T. Jaouen, B. Hildebrand, M. -L. Mottas +12
Spatially inhomogeneous electronic states are expected to be key ingredients for the emergence of superconducting phases in quantum materials hosting charge-density-waves (CDWs). P…
Robustness of the charge-ordered phases in IrTe against photoexcitation
C. Monney, A. Schuler, T. Jaouen +8
We present a time-resolved angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy study of IrTe, which undergoes two first-order structural and charge-ordered phase transitions on cooling b…
Temperature dependent photoemission on 1T-TiSe2: Interpretation within the exciton condensate phase model
C. Monney, E. F. Schwier, C. Battaglia +9
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…
Charge-orbital-lattice coupling effects in the dd-excitation profile of one dimensional cuprates
J. J. Lee, B. Moritz, W. S. Lee +12
We identify dd-excitations in the quasi-one dimensional compound CaYCuO using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. By tuning across the Cu L-edge, we observe…
Unveiling the complete dispersion of the giant Rashba split surface states of ferroelectric -GeTe(111) by alkali doping
G. Kremer, T. Jaouen, B. Salzmann +9
-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric material, for which a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to giant Rashba split states in the bulk and at the surface. Th…
Exciton condensation driving the periodic lattice distortion of 1T-TiSe2
C. Monney, C. Battaglia, H. Cercellier +2
We address the lattice instability of 1T-TiSe2 in the framework of the exciton condensate phase. We show that, at low temperature, condensed excitons influence the lattice through…
Inelastic X-ray scattering from valence electrons near absorption edges of FeTe and TiSe
B. Barbiellini, J. N. Hancock, C. Monney +4
We study resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) peaks corresponding to low energy particle-hole excited states of metallic FeTe and semi-metallic TiSe for photon incident e…