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Title: Orbital-differentiated coherence-incoherence crossover identified by photoemission spectroscopy in LiFeAs

Journal Article · · Physical Review B
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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics. Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics (BNLCP-CAS); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept.
  2. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing (China). Dept. of Physics and the Center of Advanced Quantum Studies
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics. Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics (BNLCP-CAS)
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics. Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics (BNLCP-CAS); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China); Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Dept. of Physics
  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics. Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics (BNLCP-CAS); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Physics. Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics (BNLCP-CAS); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)
  7. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  8. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept.; Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

In the iron-based superconductors (FeSCs), orbital differentiation is an important phenomenon, whereby correlations stronger on the dxy orbital than on the dxz/dyz orbital yield quasi-particles with dxy orbital character having larger mass renormalization and abnormal temperature evolution. However, the physical origin of this orbital di erentiation is debated between the Hund's coupling induced unbinding of spin and orbital degrees of freedom and the Hubbard interaction instigated orbital selective Mott transition. Here we use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to identify an orbital-dependent correlation-induced quasi-particle (QP) anomaly in LiFeAs. Lastly, the excellent agreement between our photoemission measurements and first-principles many-body theory calculations shows that the orbital-differentiated QP lifetime anomalies in LiFeAs are controlled by the Hund's coupling.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1342635
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1332034
Report Number(s):
BNL-113429-2017-JA; PRBMDO; R&D Project: PO011; KC0201060; TRN: US1701255
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 20; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 37 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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Hall coefficient signals orbital differentiation in the Hund’s metal Sr2RuO4 journal July 2019
Orbital-selective bad metals due to Hund's rule and orbital anisotropy: A finite-temperature slave-spin treatment of the two-band Hubbard model journal November 2019
Breakdown of Fermi liquid theory in topological multi-Weyl semimetals journal November 2018
Breakdown of Fermi liquid theory in topological multi-Weyl semimetals text January 2016
Site and orbital selective correlations in $β$-Pu text January 2018

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