Dynamical screening in SrVO${}_3$: Inelastic x-ray scattering experiments and ab initio calculations

Abstract

We characterize experimentally and theoretically the high-energy dielectric screening properties of the prototypical correlated metal SrVO${}_3$. The dynamical structure factor measured by inelastic x-ray scattering spectroscopy as a function of momentum transfer is in very good agreement with first-principles calculations in the adiabatic local density approximation to time-dependent density-functional theory. Our results reveal the crucial importance of crystal local fields in the charge response function of correlated materials: They lead to depolarization effects for localised excitations and couple spectra from different Brillouin zones.

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