Quasiparticle coherence and the nature of the metal-insulator phase transition in Na$_x$CoO$_2$

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2006-05-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605352v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046407 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4+ pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.046407

Layered cobaltates embody novel realizations of correlated quantum matter on a spin-1/2 triangular lattice. We report a high-resolution systematic photoemission study of the insulating cobaltates (Na1/2CoO2 and K1/2CoO2). Observation of single-particle gap opening and band-folding provides direct evidence of anisotropic particle-hole instability on the Fermi surface due to its unique topology. Kinematic overlap of the measured Fermi surface is observed with the $\sqrt{3}$x$\sqrt{3}$ cobalt charge-order Brillouin zone near x=1/3 but not at x=1/2 where insulating transition is actually observed. Unlike conventional density-waves, charge-stripes or band insulators, the on-set of the gap depends on the quasiparticle's quantum coherence which is found to occur well below the disorder-order symmetry breaking temperature of the crystal (the first known example of its kind).

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