Browsing by Author "Takayama, Tomohiro"

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    Monoclinic SrIrO3 : a Dirac semimetal produced by non-symmorphic symmetry and spin-orbit coupling
    (2018) Takayama, Tomohiro; Yaresko, Alexander N.; Takagi, Hidenori
    SrIrO3 crystallizes in a monoclinic structure of distorted hexagonal perovskite at ambient pressure. The transport measurements show that the monoclinic SrIrO3 is a low-carrier density semimetal, as in the orthorhombic perovskite polymorph. The electronic structure calculation indicates a semimetallic band structure with Dirac bands at two high-symmetry points of Brillouin zone only when spin-orbit coupling is incorporated, suggesting that the semimetallic state is produced by the strong spin-orbit coupling. We argue that the Dirac bands are protected by the non-symmorphic symmetry of lattice.
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    Photo-excited dynamics in the excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5
    (2018) Werdehausen, Daniel; Takayama, Tomohiro; Albrecht, Gelon; Lu, Yangfan; Takagi, Hidenori; Kaiser, Stefan
    The excitonic insulator is an intriguing correlated electron phase formed of condensed excitons. A promising candidate is the small band gap semiconductor Ta2NiSe5. Here we investigate the quasiparticle and coherent phonon dynamics in Ta2NiSe5 in a time resolved pump probe experiment. Using the models originally developed by Kabanov et al for superconductors (Kabanov et al 1999 Phys. Rev. B 59 1497), we show that the material’s intrinsic gap can be described as almost temperature independent for temperatures up to about 250 K to 275 K. This behavior supports the existence of the excitonic insulator state in Ta2NiSe5. The onset of an additional temperature dependent component to the gap above these temperatures suggests that the material is located in the BEC-BCS crossover regime. Furthermore, we show that this state is very stable against strong photoexcitation, which reveals that the free charge carriers are unable to effectively screen the attractive Coulomb interaction between electrons and holes, likely due to the quasi 1D structure of Ta2NiSe5.