Browsing by Author "Pronin, Artem V."

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Editorial - advances in topological materials
(2021) Pronin, Artem V.
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Fractional power-law intraband optical conductivity in the low-dimensional Dirac material CaMnBi2
(2021) Schilling, Micha Benjamin; Wang, C. X.; Shi, You-Guo; Kremer, Reinhard Karl; Dressel, Martin; Pronin, Artem V.
We studied the broadband optical conductivity of CaMnBi2, a material with two-dimensional Dirac electronic bands, and found that both components of the intraband conductivity follow a universal power law as a function of frequency at low temperatures. This conductivity scaling differs from the Drude(-like) behavior, generally expected for free carriers, but matches the predictions for the intraband response of an electronic system in a quantum critical region. Since no other indications of quantum criticality are reported for CaMnBi2 so far, the cause of the observed unusual scaling remains an open question.
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Low-energy optical conductivity of TaP : comparison of theory and experiment
(2021) Yaresko, Alexander; Pronin, Artem V.
The ab-plane optical conductivity of the Weyl semimetal TaP is calculated from the band structure and compared to the experimental data. The overall agreement between theory and experiment is found to be best when the Fermi level is slightly (20 to 60 meV) shifted upwards in the calculations. This confirms a small unintentional doping of TaP, reported earlier, and allows a natural explanation of the strong low-energy (50 meV) peak seen in the experimental ab-plane optical conductivity: this peak originates from transitions between the almost parallel non-degenerate electronic bands split by spin-orbit coupling. The temperature evolution of the peak can be reasonably well reproduce by calculations using an analog of the Mott formula.