Spectroscopic signatures of a bandwidth-controlled Mott transition at the surface of 1T-TaSe${}_2$

Abstract

High-resolution angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) data show that a metal-insulator Mott transition occurs at the surface of the quasi-two dimensional compound TaSe${}_2$. The transition is driven by the narrowing of the Ta $5d$ band induced by a temperature-dependent modulation of the atomic positions. A dynamical mean-field theory calculation of the spectral function of the half-filled Hubbard model captures the main qualitative feature of the data, namely the rapid transfer of spectral weight from the observed quasiparticle peak at the Fermi surface to the Hubbard bands, as the correlation gap opens up.

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