Anisotropic electrodynamics of type-II Weyl semimetal candidate WTe2

Frenzel, A. J.; Homes, C. C.; Gibson, Q. D.; Shao, Y. M.; Post, K. W.; Charnukha, A.; Cava, R. J.; Basov, D. N.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.245140

Title: Anisotropic electrodynamics of type-II Weyl semimetal candidate ${WTe}_{2}$

Journal Article · Fri Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.245140· OSTI ID:1376187

Frenzel, A. J. ^[1]; Homes, C. C. ^[2]; Gibson, Q. D. ^[3]; Shao, Y. M. ^[4]; Post, K. W. ^[1]; Charnukha, A. ^[1]; Cava, R. J. ^[3]; Basov, D. N. ^[4]

Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics

We investigated the ab-plane optical properties of single crystals of WTe₂ for light polarized parallel and perpendicular to the W-chain axis over a broad range of frequency and temperature. At far-infrared frequencies, we observed a striking dependence of the reflectance edge on light polarization, corresponding to anisotropy of the carrier effective masses. We quantitatively studied the temperature dependence of the plasma frequency, revealing a modest increase of the effective mass anisotropy in the ab plane upon cooling. We also found strongly anisotropic interband transitions persisting to high photon energies. These results were analyzed by comparison with ab initio calculations. The calculated and measured plasma frequencies agree to within 10% for both polarizations, while the calculated interband conductivity shows excellent agreement with experiment.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; DMR1420541; DMR1609096

OSTI ID:: 1376187

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1372532

Report Number(s):: BNL-114173-2017-JA; PRBMDO; R&D Project: PO016; KC0202020; TRN: US1702802

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Vol. 95, Issue 24; ISSN 2469-9950

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