Heavy-electron quantum criticality and single-particle spectroscopy
| Autor: | Kirchner, Stefan, Paschen, Silke, Chen, Qiuyun, Wirth, Steffen, Feng, Donglai, Thompson, Joe D., Si, Qimiao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Rev. Mod. Phys. vol. 92, 011002 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/RevModPhys.92.011002 |
| Popis: | Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) have become indispensable tools in the study of correlated quantum materials. Both probe complementary aspects of the single-particle excitation spectrum. Taken together, ARPES and STM have the potential to explore properties of the electronic Green's function, a central object of many-body theory. This review explicates this potential with a focus on heavy-electron quantum criticality, especially the role of Kondo destruction. A discussion on how to probe the Kondo destruction effect across the quantum-critical point using ARPES and STM measurements is presented. Particular emphasis is placed on the question of how to distinguish between the signatures of the initial onset of hybridization-gap formation, which is the "high-energy" physics to be expected in all heavy-electron systems, and those of Kondo destruction, which characterizes the low-energy physics and, hence, the nature of quantum criticality. Recent progress and possible challenges in the experimental investigations are surveyed, the STM and ARPES spectra for several quantum-critical heavy-electron compounds are compared, and the prospects for further advances are outlined. Comment: 23 pages, 13 figures, 1 table; Colloquia section of Reviews of Modern Physics |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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