Quasiparticle interference, quasiparticle interactions, and the origin of the charge density wave in
- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States); Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
We show that a small number of intentionally introduced defects can be used as a spectroscopic tool to amplify quasiparticle interference in 2H-NbSe₂ that we measure by scanning tunneling spectroscopic imaging. We show, from the momentum and energy dependence of the quasiparticle interference, that Fermi surface nesting is inconsequential to charge density wave formation in 2H-NbSe₂. We demonstrate that, by combining quasiparticle interference data with additional knowledge of the quasiparticle band structure from angle resolved photoemission measurements, one can extract the wave vector and energy dependence of the important electronic scattering processes thereby obtaining direct information both about the fermiology and the interactions. In 2H-NbSe₂, we use this combination to confirm that the important near-Fermi-surface electronic physics is dominated by the coupling of the quasiparticles to soft mode phonons at a wave vector different from the charge density wave ordering wave vector.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704; FG 02-04-ER-46157; FG02-98ER45706; SC0012336; AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 1182502
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1181309
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-107408-2015-JA; PRLTAO; R&D Project: PO016; KC0202020
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 3; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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