Electronic Structure of the Chevrel-Phase Compounds Sn$_{x}$Mo$_{6}$Se$_{7.5}$: Photoemission Spectroscopy and Band-structure Calculations

Details Electronic Structure of the Chevrel-Phase Compounds Sn$_{x}$Mo$_{6}$Se$_{7.5}$: Photoemission Spectroscopy and Band-structure Calculations Electronic Structure of the Chevrel-Phase Compounds Sn$_{x}$Mo$_{6}$Se$_{7.5}$: Photoemission Spectroscopy and Band-structure Calculations

2000-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011231v1

Phys. Rev. B 63, 195109 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

8 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.63.195109

We have studied the electronic structure of two Chevrel-phase compounds, Mo$_6$Se$_{7.5}$ and Sn$_{1.2}$Mo$_6$Se$_{7.5}$, by combining photoemission spectroscopy and band-structure calculations. Core-level spectra taken with x-ray photoemission spectroscopy show systematic core-level shifts, which do not obey a simple rigid-band model. The inverse photoemission spectra imply the existence of an energy gap located $\sim 1$ eV above the Fermi level, which is a characteristic feature of the electronic structure of the Chevrel compounds. Quantitative comparison between the photoemission spectra and the band-structure calculations have been made. While good agreement between theory and experiment in the wide energy range was obtained as already reported in previous studies, we found that the high density of states near the Fermi level predicted theoretically due to the Van Hove singularity is considerably reduced in the experimental spectra taken with higher energy resolution than in the previous reports. Possible origins are proposed to explain this observation.

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