Charge carrier interaction with a purely electronic collective mode: plasmarons and the infrared response of elemental bismuth |
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Authors: | Tediosi Riccardo Armitage N P Giannini E van der Marel D |
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Institution: | Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Genève, Genève 4, Switzerland. |
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Abstract: | We present a detailed optical study of single-crystal bismuth using infrared reflectivity and ellipsometry. Large changes in the plasmon frequency are observed as a function of temperature due to charge transfer between hole and electron Fermi pockets. In the optical conductivity, an anomalous temperature dependent midinfrared absorption feature is observed. An extended Drude model analysis reveals that it can be connected to a sharp upturn in the scattering rate, the frequency of which exactly tracks the temperature dependent plasmon frequency. We interpret this absorption and increased scattering as direct optical evidence for a charge carrier interaction with a collective mode of purely electronic origin, here electron-plasmon scattering. The observation of a plasmaron as such is made possible only by the unique coincidence of various energy scales and exceptional properties of semimetal bismuth. |
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