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Optical conductivity of the type-II Weyl semimetal TaIrTe4

Le Mardele, F.
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Santos-Cottin, D.
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Martino, E.
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July 6, 2020
Physical Review B

TaIrTe4 is an example of a candidate Weyl type-II semimetal with a minimal possible number of Weyl nodes. Four nodes are reported to exist in a single plane in k space. The existence of a conical dispersion linked toWeyl nodes has yet to be shown experimentally. Here, we use optical spectroscopy as a probe of the band structure on a low-energy scale. Studying optical conductivity allows us to probe intraband and interband transitions with zero momentum. In TaIrTe4, we observe a narrow Drude contribution and an interband conductivity that may be consistent with a tilted linear band dispersion up to 40 meV. The interband conductivity allows us to establish the effective parameters of the conical dispersion; effective velocity v = 1.1 x 10(4) m/s and tilt gamma = 0.37. The transport data, Seebeck and Hall coefficients, are qualitatively consistent with conical features in the band structure. Quantitative disagreement may be linked to the multiband nature of TaIrTe4.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045201
Web of Science ID

WOS:000545541000012

Author(s)
Le Mardele, F.
Santos-Cottin, D.
Martino, E.
Semeniuk, K.
Ben David, S.
Orbanic, F.
Novak, M.
Rukelj, Z.
Homes, C. C.
Akrap, Ana  
Date Issued

2020-07-06

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review B
Volume

102

Issue

4

Article Number

045201

Subjects

Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Materials Science

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Physics

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REVIEWED

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