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Photoexcited nonequilibrium dynamics in an excitonic insulator candidate Ta2NiSe5 explored by pump-probe Raman and luminescence spectroscopy

日程 : 2022年8月4日(木) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 場所 : Room #D120 in ISSP + Zoom (hybrid) 講師 : Kota Katsumi 所属 : Université Paris Cité 主催 : Matsunaga group 世話人 : Ryusuke Matsunaga (63375)
e-mail: matsunaga@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp

In narrow gap semiconductors or semimetals, the Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes may lead to a spontaneous formation of excitons. These excitons are expected to condense and give rise to an unconventional insulating ground state called excitonic insulator [1]. Among the various exitonic insulator candidate materials, Ta2NiSe5 is a prototypical example because it has a direct band gap and has no instability at finite wave-vector, such as charge density wave order [2]. As the temperature is lowered, Ta2NiSe5 displays a semiconductor-to-insulator (SI) transition below the transition temperature Tc = 325 K, which is associated with an excitonic insulator transition due to electronic correlations [2,3,4]. However, the origin of the SI transition has been still elusive because it is accompanied by a structural transition from orthorhombic to monoclinic symmetry [5]. To study whether the SI transition is lattice or electronic-driven, pump-probe optical spectroscopy is a promising technique because it can track the electronic and lattice responses separately.
In this study, we first performed equilibrium emission spectroscopy for Ta2NiSe5. In addition to low-energy electronic and phononic Raman excitations, we found significant photoluminescence (PL) signal whose intensity sharply increases below Tc, which we assign to enhanced electron-hole interactions in the insulating phase. We further investigated the pump-probe Raman and PL intensity after photoexcitation, where the Raman and PL signals serve as reporters of the lattice symmetry and the insulating gap, respectively. In this talk, we will discuss the results of the pump-probe measurements in light of the lattice-driven versus electronic-driven scenario for the SI.

[1] D. J´erome et al., Phys. Rev. 158, 462 (1967)
[2] Y. Wakisaka et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026402 (2009)
[3] K. Seki et al., Phys. Rev. B 90, 155116 (2014)
[4] Y. F. Lu et al., Nat. Commun. 8, 14408 (2017)
[5] F. J. Di Salvo et al., Journal of the Less Common Metals 116, 51 (1986)

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