Pressure Tuning of an Ionic Insulator into a Heavy Electron Metal: An Infrared Study of YbS

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2009-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/0907.4545v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 237202 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

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Optical conductivity [$\sigma(\omega)$] of YbS has been measured under pressure up to 20 GPa. Below 8 GPa, $\sigma(\omega)$ is low since YbS is an insulator with an energy gap between fully occupied 4$f$ state and unoccupied conduction ($c$) band. Above 8 GPa, however, $\sigma(\omega)$ increases dramatically, developing a Drude component due to heavy carriers and characteristic infrared peaks. It is shown that increasing pressure has caused an energy overlap and hybridization between the $c$ band and 4$f$ state, thus driving the initially ionic and insulating YbS into a correlated metal with heavy carriers.

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