Spectroscopic evidence for negative electronic compressibility in a quasi-three-dimensional spin-orbit correlated metal

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 577-582

  He, Junfeng ^a   Hogan, T ^a   Mion, Thomas R ^a   Hafiz, H ^b   He, Y ^c   Denlinger, J D ^d   Mo, S K ^d   Dhital, C ^a   Chen, X ^a   Lin, Qisen ^a   Zhang, Y ^e   Hashimoto, M ^c   Pan, H ^a   Lu, D H ^c   Arita, M ^f   Shimada, K ^f   Markiewicz, R S ^b   Wang, Z ^a   Kempa, K ^a   Naughton, M J ^a   Bansil, A ^b   Wilson, S D ^a,g   He, Rui Hua ^a   more..

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; COUPLED SUBSYSTEMS; ELECTRON SYSTEMS; NEGATIVE COMPRESSIBILITIES; NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEM; SPECTROSCOPIC EVIDENCE; THERMODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

COMPRESSIBILITY;

EID: 84929951438     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4273     Document Type: Article

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