Coincidence angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy: Proposal for detection of two-particle correlations

Abstract

The angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is one powerful experimental technique to study the electronic structure of materials. As many electron materials show unusual many-body correlations, the technique to detect directly these many-body correlations will play important roles in the study of their many-body physics. In this article, we propose a technique to detect directly the two-particle correlations, a coincidence ARPES (cARPES) where two incident photons excite two respective photoelectrons which are detected in coincidence. While the one-photon-absorption and one-photoelectron-emission ARPES provides the single-particle spectrum function, the proposed cARPES with two-photon absorption and two-photoelectron emission is relevant to a two-particle Bethe-Salpeter wave function. Examples of the coincidence detection probability of the cARPES for a free Fermi gas and a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconducting state are studied in detail. We also propose another two experimental techniques, a coincidence angle-resolved photoemission and inverse-photoemission spectroscopy (cARP/IPES) and a coincidence angle-resolved inverse-photoemission spectroscopy (cARIPES). As all of these proposed coincidence techniques can provide the two-particle frequency Bethe-Salpeter wave functions, they can show the momentum and energy dependent two-particle dynamical physics of the material electrons in the particle-particle or particle-hole channel. Thus, they can be introduced to study the Cooper-pair physics in the superconductor, the itinerant magnetism in the metallic ferromagnet/antiferromagnet, and the particle-hole pair physics in the metallic nematic state. Moreover, as the two-particle Bethe-Salpeter wave functions also involve the inner-pair dynamical physics, these proposed coincidence techniques can be used to study the inner-pair time-retarded physics.

14 pages, 5 figures; Revised version for publication with typo corrections upon V3

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