Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2008-07-07
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
5 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.246402
The coupling of phonons with collective modes and single-particle gap excitations associated with one (1d) and two-directional (2d) electronically-driven charge-density wave (CDW) ordering in metallic RTe_3 is investigated as a function of rare-earth ion chemical pressure (R=Tb, Dy, Ho) using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. From the T-dependence of the CDW gap \Delta_{CDW} and the amplitude mode (AM) we find that while the transition to a 1d-CDW ordered state at T_{c1} initially proceeds in an exemplary mean-field (MF) -like fashion, below T_{c1}, \Delta_{CDW} is depressed and departs from the MF behavior. The effect is apparently triggered by resonant mode-mixing of the amplitude mode (AM) with a totally symmetric phonon at 1.75 THz. At low temperatures, when the state evolves into a 2d-CDW ordered state at T_{c2} in the DyTe_3 and HoTe_3, additional much weaker mode mixing is evident but no soft mode is observed.
Chu Jiun-Haw.
Fisher Ian R.
Mertelj T.
Mihailovic Dragan
Yusupov R. V.
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