Anomalous phonon Grüneisen parameters in semiconductor TaNiS
arXiv:2405.01455 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.110.035120
Abstract
Strain tuning is a powerful experimental method in probing correlated electron systems. Here we study the strain response of the lattice dynamics and electronic structure in semiconductor TaNiS by polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy. We observe an increase of the size of the direct semiconducting band gap. Although the majority of the optical phonons show only marginal dependence to applied strain, the frequency of the two B phonon modes, which have quadrupolar symmetry and already anomalously soften on cooling under zero strain, increases significantly with tensile strain along the axis. The corresponding Grüneisen parameters are unusually large in magnitude and negative in sign. These effects are well captured by first-principles density functional theory calculations and indicate close proximity of TaNiS to a structural instability, similar to that encountered in excitonic insulator candidate TaNiSe.
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