Search results for "Optical conductivity"
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Observing the anisotropic optical response of the heavy-fermion compound UNi2 Al3
2010
The optical conductivity of heavy fermions can reveal fundamental properties of the charge carrier dynamics in these strongly correlated electron systems. Here we extend the conventional techniques of infrared optics on heavy fermions by measuring the transmission and phase shift of THz radiation that passes through a thin film of UNi 2 Al 3 , a material with hexagonal crystal structure. We deduce the optical conductivity in a previously not accessible frequency range, and furthermore we resolve the anisotropy of the optical response (parallel and perpendicular to the hexagonal planes). At frequencies around 7 cm -1 , we find a strongly temperature-dependent and anisotropic optical conducti…
Optical determination of the oxygen content of YBa2Cu3O6+x thin films by IR reflectance and transmittance measurements
2001
Abstract Recent studies of the optical properties of YBa2Cu3O6+x (YBCO) single crystals by several authors have shown that the optical conductivity in the infrared spectral region is a sensitive function of the oxygen content of the samples. Infrared spectroscopy thus offers a possibility for oxygen concentration analysis and is an alternative to other methods such as (i) the X-ray determination of the length of the c-axis and (ii) spectroscopic ellipsometry at an electronic transition band centered around 4.1 eV whose strength decreases with increasing oxygen content. We explore the applicability of the IR optical method for the case of YBCO thin films of about 300 nm thickness which are e…
Direct observation of Drude behavior in the heavy-fermion by broadband microwave spectroscopy
2005
Abstract Previous optical studies on the heavy-fermion system UPd 2 Al 3 down to frequencies of about 1 cm - 1 ( = 30 GHz ) revealed a well-pronounced pseudogap at low frequencies (below 3 cm - 1 ) that was attributed to magnetic correlations. Thus, the optical conductivity at even lower frequencies is of notable interest because the Drude roll-off (the high-frequency characteristic of a metal which will give information on the quasiparticle dynamics) remained hidden at extremely low frequencies. Using a novel cryogenic broadband microwave spectrometer employing the Corbino geometry we have studied the complex optical conductivity of UPd 2 Al 3 thin films in the frequency range from 45 MHz …
Dependence of the Optical Constant Parameters of p-Toluene Sulfonic Acid-Doped Polyaniline and Its Composites on Dispersion Solvents
2020
The optical constants of Para-Toluene sulfonic acid-doped polyaniline (PANI), PANIchitosan composites, PANI-reduced graphene-oxide composites and a ternary composite comprising of PANI, chitosan and reduced graphene-oxide dispersed in diluted p-toluene sulfonic acid (PTSA) solution and N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone (NMP) solvent have been evaluated and compared. The optical constant values were extracted from the absorbance spectra of thin layers of the respective samples. The potential utilization of the materials as the active sensing materials of surface plasmon resonance biosensors has also been assessed in terms of the estimated value of the penetration depth through a dielectric medium. The …
Terahertz conductivity of the heavy-fermion compound UNi2Al3
2011
We have studied the optical properties of the heavy-fermion compound UNi${}_{2}$Al${}_{3}$ at frequencies between 100 GHz and 1 THz (3 and 35 cm${}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$), temperatures between 2 and 300 K, and magnetic fields up to 7 T. From the measured transmission and phase shift of radiation passing through a thin film of UNi${}_{2}$Al${}_{3}$, we have directly determined the frequency dependence of the real and imaginary parts of the optical conductivity (or permittivity, respectively). At low temperatures the anisotropy of the optical conductivity along the $a$ and $c$ axes is about 1.5. The frequency dependence of the real part of the optical conductivity shows a maximum at low temperat…
Incoherent midinfrared charge excitation and the high-energy anomaly in the photoemission spectra of cuprates
2007
On the basis of a semi-phenomenological model, it is argued that the high energy anomaly observed in recent photoemission experiments on cuprates is caused by interaction with an overdamped bosonic mode in the mid-infrared region of the spectrum. Analysis of optical conductivity allows to connect this excitation to the incoherent charge response reported for the majority of high Tc materials and some other perovskites. We show that its large damping is an essential feature responsible for the "waterfall" dispersion and linewidth of the spectral weight.
Optical conductivity inYBa2Cu3O7−δthin films
1999
The real and imaginary parts of the optical conductivity ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{1}+i{\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{2}$ of partly untwinned ${\mathrm{YBa}}_{2}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}{\mathrm{O}}_{7\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\delta}}$ thin films were measured by submillimeter spectroscopy for frequencies from 100 GHz to 1 THz. The frequency dependence of the conductivity below ${T}_{C}$ can be described by a narrow Drude-like peak with strongly temperature-dependent relaxation rates. ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{1}(\ensuremath{\nu})$ does not extrapolate to the universal d-wave value at 0 K. Impurity scattering significantly different to the unitary limit has to be assumed to achieve agreement with recent theor…
Direct observation of the quasiparticle relaxation in YBa2Cu3O7
1999
Abstract The real and imaginary parts of the optical conductivity ( σ 1 + iσ 2 ) in the superconducting state of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ thin films have been obtained by submillimeter spectroscopy for frequencies from 3 to 35 cm −1 . The quasiparticle relaxation can be directly observed in this frequency range. A Drude-type analysis allows to extract the temperature dependence of the scattering rate. The collapse of the relaxation rates provides clear experimental evidence that the spin fluctuations become gapped below T C .
Nature of Heavy Quasiparticles in Magnetically Ordered Heavy FermionsUPd2Al3andUPt3
2002
The optical conductivity of the heavy fermions $\mathrm{UPd}{}_{2}{\mathrm{Al}}_{3}$ and $\mathrm{UPt}{}_{3}$ has been measured in the energy range from 0.04 to 5 meV. In both compounds a well pronounced pseudogap of less than 1 meV develops in the optical response at low temperatures; we relate this to the antiferromagnetic ordering. From the energy dependence of the effective mass and scattering rate we conclude that the enhancement of the mass mainly occurs below the energy which is related to magnetic correlations between the local magnetic moments and the itinerant electrons. This implies that the magnetic order in these compounds is the prerequisite to the formation of the heavy quasi…
Transport Properties of Correlated Electrons in High Dimensions
2003
We develop a new general algorithm for finding a regular tight-binding lattice Hamiltonian in infinite dimensions for an arbitrary given shape of the density of states (DOS). The availability of such an algorithm is essential for the investigation of broken-symmetry phases of interacting electron systems and for the computation of transport properties within the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). The algorithm enables us to calculate the optical conductivity fully consistently on a regular lattice, e.g., for the semi-elliptical (Bethe) DOS. We discuss the relevant f-sum rule and present numerical results obtained using quantum Monte Carlo techniques.