Optical properties and electronic structure of ZrB$_{12}$

Details Optical properties and electronic structure of ZrB$_{12}$ Optical properties and electronic structure of ZrB$_{12}$

2006-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609426v2

Phys. Rev. B 75, 134503 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.134503

We report optical (6 meV - 4 eV) properties of a boride superconductor ZrB$_{12}$ ($T_c$ = 6 K) in the normal state from 20 to 300 K measured on high-quality single crystals by a combination of reflectivity and ellipsometry. The Drude plasma frequency and interband optical conductivity calculated by self-consistent full-potential LMTO method agree well with experimental data. The Eliashberg function $\alpha_{tr}^2F(\omega)$ extracted from optical spectra features two peaks at about 25 and 80 meV, in agreement with specific heat data. The total coupling constant is $\lambda_{tr}=1.0\pm0.35$. The low energy peak presumably corresponds to the displacement mode of Zr inside $B_{24}$ cages, while the second one involves largely boron atoms. In addition to the usual narrowing of the Drude peak with cooling down, we observe an unexpected removal of about 10 % of the Drude spectral weight which is partially transferred to the region of the lowest-energy interband transition ($\sim$ 1 eV). This effect may be caused by the delocalization of the metal ion from the center of the $B_{24}$ cluster.

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