Satellite Band Structure in Silicon Caused by Electron-Plasmon Coupling

Abstract

We report the first angle-resolved photoemission measurement of the wave-vector dependent plasmon satellite structure of a three-dimensional solid, crystalline silicon. In sharp contrast to nanomaterials, which typically exhibit strongly wave-vector dependent, low-energy plasmons, the large plasmon energy of silicon facilitates the search for a plasmaron state consisting of resonantly bound holes and plasmons and its distinction from a weakly interacting plasmon-hole pair. Employing a first-principles theory, which is based on a cumulant expansion of the one-electron Green's function and contains significant electron correlation effects, we obtain good agreement with the measured photoemission spectrum for the wave-vector dependent dispersion of the satellite feature, but without observing the existence of plasmarons in the calculations.

7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PRB

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