Anisotropic electrodynamics of type-II Weyl semimetal candidate WTe2

被引：76

作者：

Frenzel, A. J. ^{[1
]}

Homes, C. C. ^{[2
,3
]}

Gibson, Q. D. ^{[4
]}

Shao, Y. M. ^{[1
,5
]}

Post, K. W. ^{[1
]}

Charnukha, A. ^{[1
]}

Cava, R. J. ^{[4
]}

Basov, D. N. ^{[1
,5
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Phys, La Jolla, CA 92039 USA

[2] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Condensed Matter Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA

[3] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Mat Sci, Upton, NY 11973 USA

[4] Princeton Univ, Dept Chem, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[5] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, 538 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2017年 / 95卷 / 24期

关键词：

ATOMIC-SCALE; MAGNETORESISTANCE; ELECTRON; MOTE2;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevB.95.245140

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

We investigated the ab-plane optical properties of single crystals of WTe2 for light polarized parallel and perpendicular to the W-chain axis over a broad range of frequency and temperature. At far-infrared frequencies, we observed a striking dependence of the reflectance edge on light polarization, corresponding to anisotropy of the carrier effective masses. We quantitatively studied the temperature dependence of the plasma frequency, revealing a modest increase of the effective mass anisotropy in the ab plane upon cooling. We also found strongly anisotropic interband transitions persisting to high photon energies. These results were analyzed by comparison with ab initio calculations. The calculated and measured plasma frequencies agree to within 10% for both polarizations, while the calculated interband conductivity shows excellent agreement with experiment.

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