Single-particle and collective mode couplings associated with 1- and 2-directional electronic ordering in metallic RTe3 (R = Ho, Dy, Tb)
The coupling of phonons with collective modes and single-particle gap excitations associated with one (1d) and two-directional (2d) electronically-driven charge-density wave (CDW) ordering in metallic RTe{sub 3} is investigated as a function of rare-earth ion chemical pressure (R = Tb, Dy, Ho) using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. From the T-dependence of the CDW gap {Delta}{sub CDW} and the amplitude mode (AM) we find that while the transition to a 1d-CDW ordered state at Tc1 initially proceeds in an exemplary mean-field (MF)-like fashion, below T{sub c1}, {Delta}{sub CDW} is depressed and departs from the MF behavior. The effect is apparently triggered by resonant mode-mixing of the amplitude mode (AM) with a totally symmetric phonon at 1.75 THz. At low temperatures, when the state evolves into a 2d-CDW ordered state at T{sub c2} in the DyTe{sub 3} and HoTe{sub 3}, additional much weaker mode mixing is evident but no soft mode is observed.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 972242
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-13893; TRN: US1001986
- Journal Information:
- Submitted to Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Submitted to Physical Review Letters
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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