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The effect of electronic correlations on the nematic electronic phase of FeSe<sub>1-x</sub>Te<sub>x</sub>

ORAL

Abstract

Orbitally-dependent electronic correlations can play an important role in the stabilization of the nematic and superconducting states of iron-chalcogenides. In FeSe nematicity is supressed using isoelectronic substitution of sulphur and tellurium, but the increase in bandwidths only occurs with sulphur substitution leading to reduced correlations.  Here we will present a study of the electronic structure of the nematic superconductors FeSe1-xTex using ARPES to understand the role of orbitally-dependent correlations on the nematic electronic state with tellurium substitution. We assess the degree of band renormalisation by comparing our ARPES data to DFT band structure calculations. From the linewidths and Fermi velocities of the energy dispersions we access the imaginary part of the self-energy which corresponds to the quasiparticle lifetime. Next, we extract the size of the Fermi surface and its kz-dependence and compare these findings to previous studies on FeSe1-xSx. Lastly, by using deep energy cuts, we discuss the formation of a Hubbard-like band in FeSe1-xTex as compared with FeSe.

Presenters

  • Archie B Morfoot

    University of Oxford

Authors

  • Archie B Morfoot

    University of Oxford

  • Timur Kim

    Diamond Light Source

  • Matthew D Watson

    Diamond Light Source

  • Amir A Haghighirad

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IQMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  • Shiv J Singh

    University of Oxford

  • Ryutaro Okuma

    University of Oxford

  • Amalia I Coldea

    University of Oxford