Publications (39)
Probing inter- and intrachain Zhang-Rice excitons in LiCuO and determining their binding energy
Claude Monney, Valentina Bisogni, Ke-Jin Zhou +8
Cuprate materials, like those hosting high temperature superconductivity, represent a famous class of materials where the correlations between the strongly entangled charges and sp…
Two-Spinon and Orbital Excitations of the Spin-Peierls System TiOCl
Sebastian Glawion, Jakoba Heidler, Maurits W. Haverkort +8
We combine high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering with cluster calculations utilizing a recently derived effective magnetic scattering operator to analyze the polariza…
Elementary structural building blocks encountered in silicon surface reconstructions
Corsin Battaglia, Katalin Gaal-Nagy, Claude Monney +5
Driven by the reduction of dangling bonds and the minimization of surface stress, reconstruction of silicon surfaces leads to a striking diversity of outcomes. Despite this variety…
Electronic band structure reconstruction in NiZrTe
Pedro H. A. Moya, Marli R. Cantarino, Lucas E. Correa +6
The filling of the large van der Waals gap in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) often leads to lattice and electronic instabilities, which prelude the onset of a rich phenome…
Persistence of structural distortion and bulk band Rashba splitting in SnTe above its ferroelectric critical temperature
Frédéric Chassot, Aki Pulkkinen, Geoffroy Kremer +8
The ferroelectric semiconductor -SnTe has been regarded as a topological crystalline insulator and the dispersion of its surface states has been intensively measured with angle…
Modified interlayer stacking and insulator to correlated-metal transition driven by uniaxial strain in 1-TaS
Christopher W. Nicholson, Francesco Petocchi, Björn Salzmann +6
Interlayer coupling is strongly implicated in the complex electronic properties of 1-TaS , but the interplay between this and electronic correlations remains unresolved. Her…
Conduction Band Structure and Ultrafast Dynamics of Ferroelectric -GeTe(111)
Geoffroy Kremer, Laurent Nicolaï, Frédéric Chassot +9
-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric (FE) material for which a significative lattice distortion combined with a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to giant R…
Determining the Short-Range Spin Correlations in Cuprate Chain Materials with Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
Claude Monney, Valentina Bisogni, Ke Jin Zhou +13
We report a high-resolution resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering study of the quantum magnetic spin-chain materials Li2CuO2 and CuGeO3. By tuning the incoming photon energy to…
Three-Dimensional Fermiology by Soft-X-Ray ARPES: Origin of Charge Density Waves in VSe2
Vladimir N. Strocov, Ming Shi, Masaki Kobayashi +7
Electronic structure of crystalline materials is their fundamental characteristic which is the basis of almost all their physical and chemical properties. Angle-resolved photoemiss…
Femtosecond dynamics of magnetic excitations from resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in CaCu2O3
Valentina Bisogni, Stefanos Kourtis, Claude Monney +10
Taking spinon excitations in the quantum antiferromagnet CaCu2O3 as an example, we demonstrate that femtosecond dynamics of magnetic excitations can be probed by direct resonant in…
Orbital breathing effects in the computation of x-ray d-ion spectra in solids by ab initio wave-function-based methods
Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Valentina Bisogni, Roberto Kraus +8
In existing theoretical approaches to core-level excitations of transition-metal ions in solids relaxation and polarization effects due to the inner core hole are often ignored or…
Revealing electronic correlations in YNiBC using photoemission spectroscopy
Aki Pulkkinen, Geoffroy Kremer, Vladimir N. Strocov +3
We present a combined density functional theory (DFT), one-step model of photoemission, and soft x-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (SX-ARPES) study of the electronic…
Observation of the metallic mosaic phase in 1-TaS at equilibrium
Björn Salzmann, Elina Hujala, Catherine Witteveen +5
The transition-metal dichalcogenide tantalum disulphide (1-TaS) hosts a commensurate charge density wave (CCDW) at temperatures below 165~K where it also becomes insulating.…
Disorder-induced damping of spin excitations in Cr-doped BaFeAs
Marli R. Cantarino, Rafael M. P. Teixeira, R. Pakuszewski +9
In doped Hund's metals, such as the iron-based superconductors, effects like charge doping and chemical pressure are often considered the dominant factors. Partial chemical substit…
Atomically precise Si(331)-(12x1) surfaces
Corsin Battaglia, Claude Monney, Clement Didiot +4
Si(331)-(12x1) is the only confirmed planar silicon surface with a stable reconstruction located between (111) and (110). We have optimized the annealing sequence and are able to o…
Field-induced ultrafast modulation of Rashba coupling at room temperature in ferroelectric -GeTe(111)
Geoffroy Kremer, Julian Maklar, Laurent Nicolaï +11
Rashba materials have appeared as an ideal playground for spin-to-charge conversion in prototype spintronics devices. Among them, -GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelect…
Inhibition of the photoinduced structural phase transition in the excitonic insulator TaNiSe
Selene Mor, Marc Herzog, Johannes Noack +7
Femtosecond time-resolved mid-infrared reflectivity is used to investigate the electron and phonon dynamics occurring at the direct band gap of the excitonic insulator TaNiSe$_…
Suppression of stripe-ordered structural phases in monolayer IrTe by a gold substrate
Kati Asikainen, Frédéric Chassot, Baptiste Hildebrand +12
Metal-assisted exfoliation of two-dimensional (2D) materials has emerged as an efficient route to isolating large-area monolayer crystals, yet the influence of the supporting metal…
Role of a higher dimensional interaction in stabilizing charge density waves in quasi-1D NbSe revealed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
Christopher W. Nicholson, Eike F. Schwier, Kenya Shimada +4
We revisit charge density wave (CDW) behavior in the archetypal quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) material NbSe by high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy meas…
Precursor phase with full phonon softening above the charge-density-wave phase transition in -TaSe
Xingchen Shen, Rolf Heid, Roland Hott +8
Research on charge-density-wave (CDW) ordered transition-metal dichalcogenides continues to unravel new states of quantum matter correlated to the intertwined lattice and electroni…
Ultrafast dynamics of excitons in black phosphorus
Geoffroy Kremer, Juan F. P. Mosquera, Joël Morf +9
Excitons are key quasiparticles determining the optical properties of solids. As such, they can be utilized to coherently control the electronic structure of materials using optica…
Dimensional Crossover in a Charge Density Wave Material Probed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
Christopher W. Nicholson, Christophe Berthod, Michele Puppin +4
High-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data reveal evidence of a crossover from one-dimensional (1D) to three-dimensional (3D) behavior in the prototypic…
Ultrafast charge carrier and exciton dynamics in an excitonic insulator probed by time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
Selene Mor, Marc Herzog, Claude Monney +1
An excitonic insulator phase is expected to arise from the spontaneous formation of electron-hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors where the exciton binding energy exceeds the si…
Break of symmetry at the surface of IrTe upon phase transition measured by X-ray photoelectron diffraction
Maxime Rumo, Aki Pulkkinen, KeYuan Ma +3
IrTe undergoes a series of charge-ordered phase transitions below room temperature that are characterized by the formation of stripes of Ir dimers of different periodicities. F…
Generation and evolution of spin-, valley- and layer-polarized excited carriers in inversion-symmetric WSe2
Roman Bertoni, Christopher W. Nicholson, Lutz Waldecker +11
Manipulation of spin and valley degrees of freedom is a key step towards realizing novel quantum technologies, for which atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) ha…
Orbital control of effective dimensionality: from spin-orbital fractionalization to confinement in the anisotropic ladder system CaCu2O3
Valentina Bisogni, Krzysztof Wohlfeld, Satoshi Nishimoto +11
Fractionalization of an electronic quasiparticle into spin, charge and orbital parts is a fundamental and characteristic property of interacting electrons in one dimension. However…
Ultrafast Electronic Band Gap Control in an Excitonic Insulator
Selene Mor, Marc Herzog, Denis Golež +8
We report on the nonequilibrium dynamics of the electronic structure of the layered semiconductor TaNiSe investigated by time- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy…
Anisotropic magnetic excitations and incipient Néel order in Ba(FeMn)As
Fernando A. Garcia, Oleh Ivashko, Daniel E. McNally +7
It is currently understood that high temperature superconductivity (SC) in the transition metal substituted iron arsenides Ba(Fe)As is promoted b…
Incoherent electronic band states in Mn-substituted BaFeAs
Marli R. Cantarino, Kevin R. Pakuszewski, Björn Salzmann +8
Chemical substitution is commonly used to explore new ground states in materials, yet the role of disorder is often overlooked. In Mn-substituted BaFeAs (MnBFA), superc…
Novel Cu-based dz2 order at a YBa2Cu3O7/ manganite interface
Roxana Gaina, Christopher W. Nicholson, Maxime Rumo +12
The interplay of nearly degenerate orders in quantum materials can lead to a myriad of emergent phases. A prominent case is that of the high-Tc cuprates for which the relationship…
A new structural model for the Si(331)-(12x1) reconstruction
Corsin Battaglia, Katalin Gaal-Nagy, Claude Monney +5
A new structural model for the Si(331)-(12x1) reconstruction is proposed. Based on scanning tunneling microscopy images of unprecedented resolution, low-energy electron diffraction…
Mott versus hybridization gap in the low-temperature phase of -TaS
Francesco Petocchi, Christopher W. Nicholson, Bjoern Salzmann +4
We compute the correlated electronic structure of stacked -TaS bilayers using the + EDMFT method. Depending on the surface termination, the semi-infinite uncorrelated…
Detection of Image Potential States above the vacuum level in GeTe
Frédéric Chassot, Aki Pulkkinen, Ján Minár +3
The ferroelectric semiconductor α-GeTe(111) has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to its unique properties, with extensive studies focusing on its occupied el…
Misfit layer compounds: a platform for heavily-doped two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides
Raphaël T. Leriche, Alexandra Palacio-Morales, Marco Campetella +14
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) display a rich variety of instabilities such as spin and charge orders, Ising superconductivity and topological properties. Their physical p…
Protection of Ising spin-orbit coupling in bulk misfit superconductors
Tomas Samuely, Darshana Wickramaratne, Martin Gmitra +16
Low-dimensional materials have remarkable properties that are distinct from their bulk counterparts. A paradigmatic example is Ising superconductivity that occurs in monolayer mate…
Composite antiferromagnetic and orbital order with altermagnetic properties at a cuprate/manganite interface
Subhrangsu Sarkar, Roxana Capu, Yurii G. Pashkevich +12
Heterostructures from complex oxides allow one to combine various electronic and magnetic orders as to induce new quantum states. A prominent example is the coupling between superc…
Electron-lattice interactions strongly renormalize the charge transfer energy in the spin-chain cuprate LiCuO
Steve Johnston, Claude Monney, Valentina Bisogni +9
Strongly correlated insulators are broadly divided into two classes: Mott-Hubbard insulators, where the insulating gap is driven by the Coulomb repulsion on the transition-meta…
Scanning tunneling microscopy at multiple voltage biases of stable "ring-like" Ag clusters on Si(111)-(77)
Nicolas Mariotti, Clément Didiot, Eike F Schwier +5
Since more than twenty years it is known that deposition of Ag onto Si(111)-(7\times7) leads under certain conditions to the formation of so-called "ring-like" clusters, that are p…
Electron-momentum dependence of electron-phonon coupling underlies dramatic phonon renormalization in YNiBC
Philipp Kurzhals, Geoffroy Kremer, Thomas Jaouen +12
Electron-phonon coupling, i.e., the scattering of lattice vibrations by electrons and vice versa, is ubiquitous in solids and can lead to emergent ground states such as superconduc…