Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2009-10-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
5 pages, 3 figures; FIG1 and FIG2 modified, added references, corrected typos
Scientific paper
Here we report the experimental evidence of the interactions between the excitations of the $\pi\to\pi^*$ optical transition and the image potential states (IPS) of highly oriented pyrolitic graphite (HOPG). By using non-linear angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (NL-ARPES) we show that the IPS photoemission intensity, the effective mass, and the linewidth exhibit a strong variation when the photon energy is tuned across the $\pi\to\pi^*$ saddle points in the 3.1 - 4.5 eV photon energy range. A model based on the self-energy formalism is proposed to correlate the effective mass and the linewidth variations to transient many body effects, when a high carriers density (in the $10^{20}$ cm$^{-3}$ range) is created by the absorption of a coherent light pulse. This finding brings a clear evidence of a high IPS-bulk coupling in graphite and opens the way for exploiting the IPS as a sensitive, nonperturbing probe for the many-body dynamics in materials.
Conte Stefano Dal
Ferrini Giulia
Galimberti Gianluca
Montagnese M.
Pagliara Stefano
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