Bulk electronic structure of lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) by hard x-ray angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
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- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Synchrotron Light Research Institute, Nakhon Ratchasima (Thailand)
- Univ. of West Bohemia, Pilsen (Czech Republic)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Liege, (Belgium)
- National Inst. for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba (Japan)
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Hyogo (Japan)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany)
- Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
In the last decade rare-earth hexaborides have been investigated for their fundamental importance in condensed matter, and for their applications in advanced technological fields. Among these compounds, LaB6 has a special place, being a traditional d-band metal without additional f bands. In order to understand the bulk electronic structure of the more complex rare-earth hexaborides, in this paper we investigate the bulk electronic structure of LaB6 using tender/hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy, measuring both core-level and angle-resolved valence-band spectra. Furthermore, we compare the La 3d core level spectrum to cluster model calculations in order to understand the bulklike core-hole screening effects. The results show that the La 3d well-screened peak is at a lower binding energy compared to the main poorly screened peak; the relative intensity between these peaks depends on how strong the hybridization is between La and B atoms. We show that the recoil effect, negligible in the soft x-ray regime, becomes prominent at higher kinetic energies for lighter elements, such as boron, but is still negligible for heavy elements, such as lanthanum. In addition, we report the bulklike band structure of LaB6 determined by tender/hard x-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (HARPES). We compare HARPES experimental results to the free-electron final-state calculations and to the more precise one-step photoemission theory including matrix element and phonon excitation effects. The agreement between the features present in the experimental ARPES data and the theoretical calculations is very good. In addition, we consider the nature and the magnitude of phonon excitations in order to interpret HARPES experimental data measured at different temperatures and excitation energies. We demonstrate that the one-step theory of photoemission and HARPES experiments provides, at present, the only approach capable of probing, both experimentally and theoretically, true “bulklike” electronic band structure of rare-earth hexaborides and strongly correlated materials.
- Research Organization:
- Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019297; AC02-05CH11231; SC0014697
- OSTI ID:
- 1783680
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1830090; OSTI ID: 1866263
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Materials, Vol. 5, Issue 5; ISSN 2475-9953
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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