L. Z. Maulana
;
A. A. Tsirlin
;
E. Uykur
;
Y. Saito
;
M. Dressel
;
M. Imai
;
A. V. Pronin
説明:
(abstract)We probe the possible double-Weyl state in cubic SrSi2 using optical spectroscopy. The complex optical conductivity was measured in a frequency range from 70 cm−1 to 22 000 cm−1 at temperatures down to 10 K at ambient pressure. The optical response of SrSi2 can be well separated into the intraband (free carriers) and interband contributions. Additionally, four infrared-active phonons are detected. As follows from the optical spectra, the free-carrier density decreases with decreasing temperature, consistent with an activation behaviour. Experimental interband conductivity juxtaposed with ab initio calculations shows that conventional density-functional theory fails to describe the electronic structure of SrSi2 in the vicinity of the Fermi level. A semi-local exchange-correlation potential allows a much better agreement with the experiment, resulting in the trivial (gapped) band structure of SrSi2. The direct gap estimated from the measurements is approximately 40 meV.
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©2025 American Physical Society
キーワード: silicide, semiconductor, optical conductivity
刊行年月日: 2025-10-20
出版者: American Physical Society (APS)
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原稿種別: 著者最終稿 (Accepted manuscript)
MDR DOI: https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.5822
公開URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/y1gj-67wz
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