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Multiple mobile excitons manifested as sidebands in quasi-one-dimensional metallic TaSe3

Ma, Junzhang
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Nie, Simin
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Gui, Xin
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February 21, 2022
Nature Materials

Charge neutrality and their expected itinerant nature makes excitons potential transmitters of information. However, exciton mobility remains inaccessible to traditional optical experiments that only create and detect excitons with negligible momentum. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we detect dispersing excitons in the quasi-one-dimensional metallic trichalcogenide, TaSe3. The low density of conduction electrons and the low dimensionality in TaSe3 combined with a polaronic renormalization of the conduction band and the poorly screened interaction between these polarons and photo-induced valence holes leads to various excitonic bound states that we interpret as intrachain and interchain excitons, and possibly trions. The thresholds for the formation of a photo-hole together with an exciton appear as side valence bands with dispersions nearly parallel to the main valence band, but shifted to lower excitation energies. The energy separation between side and main valence bands can be controlled by surface doping, enabling the tuning of certain exciton properties. Mobile excitons in metals have been elusive, as screening usually suppresses their formation. Here, the authors demonstrate such mobile bound states in quasi-one-dimensional metallic TaSe3, taking advantage of its low dimensionality and carrier density.

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DOI
10.1038/s41563-022-01201-9
Web of Science ID

WOS:000758972100001

Author(s)
Ma, Junzhang
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Nie, Simin
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Gui, Xin
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Naamneh, Muntaser
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Jandke, Jasmin
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Xi, Chuanying
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Zhang, Jinglei
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Shang, Tian
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Xiong, Yimin
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Kapon, Itzik
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Date Issued

2022-02-21

Published in
Nature Materials
Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Chemistry

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Materials Science

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Physics

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charge-density-wave

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transition

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superconductivity

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March 14, 2022
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