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三维狄拉克体系ZrTe$_{5}$中与温度相关的集体激发

Temperature-Dependent Collective Excitations in a Three-Dimensional Dirac System ZrTe$_{5}$

Zijian Lin, Cuixiang Wang, Daqiang Chen, Sheng Meng, Youguo Shi, Jiandong Guo, Xuetao Zhu

AI总结:

本研究利用反射式高分辨电子能量损失谱研究三维狄拉克体系ZrTe₅的温度依赖集体激发,发现其等离激元能量与载流子浓度的1/3次方成正比,进而将该材料的电阻率反常归因于外禀狄拉克半金属的温度相关化学势偏移。

摘要:

五碲化锆(ZrTe$_{5}$)是一种在费米能级处具有狄拉克线性能带且存在反常输运特性的体系,由于被预测处于由拓扑半金属相分隔的强拓扑绝缘体与弱拓扑绝缘体的边界,已吸引了大量研究兴趣。然而,ZrTe$_{5}$中拓扑相变与拓扑基态的实验验证仍充满争议,主要原因是单粒子能带结构测量难以精确捕捉微小的能隙演化。作为替代方案,狄拉克体系中电荷的集体激发——即等离激元(plasmon)——展现出独特行为,能够很好地反映能带结构的拓扑本质。本研究利用反射式高分辨电子能量损失谱(HREELS),研究了ZrTe$_{5}$中与温度相关的集体激发,发现ZrTe$_{5}$中的等离激元能量与载流子浓度$n$的1/3次方成正比,这是三维狄拉克体系中等离激元的独有特征。基于这一结论,ZrTe$_{5}$的电阻率反常起源可归因于外禀狄拉克半金属中随温度变化的化学势偏移。

英文摘要:

Zirconium pentatelluride (ZrTe$_{5}$), a system with a Dirac linear band across the Fermi level and anomalous transport features, has attracted considerable research interest for it is predicted to be located at the boundary between strong and weak topological insulators separated by a topological semimetal phase. However, the experimental verification of the topological phase transition and the topological ground state in ZrTe$_{5}$ is full of controversies, mostly due to the difficulty of precisely capturing the small gap evolution with single-particle band structure measurements. Alternatively, the collective excitations of electric charges, known as plasmons, in Dirac systems exhibiting unique behavior, can well reflect the topological nature of the band structure. Here, using reflective high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), we investigate the temperature-dependent collective excitations of ZrTe$_{5}$, and discover that the plasmon energy in ZrTe$_{5}$ is proportional to the $1/3$ power of the carrier density $n$, which is a unique feature of plasmons in three-dimensional Dirac systems. Based on this conclusion, the origin of the resistivity anomaly of ZrTe$_{5}$ can be attributed to the temperature-dependent chemical potential shift in extrinsic Dirac semimetals.

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