Excited States Band Mapping and Ultrafast Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Topological Dirac Semimetal 1T-ZrTe$_2$

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Main Authors: Fragkos, Sotirios, Symeonidou, Evgenia, Lasserre, Emile, Fabre, Baptiste, Descamps, Dominique, Petit, Stéphane, Tsipas, Polychronis, Mairesse, Yann, Dimoulas, Athanasios, Beaulieu, Samuel
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author Fragkos, Sotirios
Symeonidou, Evgenia
Lasserre, Emile
Fabre, Baptiste
Descamps, Dominique
Petit, Stéphane
Tsipas, Polychronis
Mairesse, Yann
Dimoulas, Athanasios
Beaulieu, Samuel
author_facet Fragkos, Sotirios
Symeonidou, Evgenia
Lasserre, Emile
Fabre, Baptiste
Descamps, Dominique
Petit, Stéphane
Tsipas, Polychronis
Mairesse, Yann
Dimoulas, Athanasios
Beaulieu, Samuel
contents We performed time- and polarization-resolved extreme ultraviolet momentum microscopy on topological Dirac semimetal candidate 1T-ZrTe$_2$. Excited states band mapping uncovers the previously inaccessible linear dispersion of the Dirac cone above the Fermi level. We study the orbital texture of bands using linear dichroism in photoelectron angular distributions. These observations provide hints on the topological character of 1T-ZrTe$_2$. Time-, energy- and momentum-resolved nonequilibrium carrier dynamics reveal that intra- and inter-band scattering processes play a capital role in the relaxation mechanism, leading to multivalley electron-hole accumulation near the Fermi level. We also show that electrons' inverse lifetime has a linear dependence on their binding energy. Our time- and polarization-resolved XUV photoemission results shed light on the excited state electronic structure of 1T-ZrTe$_2$ and provide valuable insights into the relatively unexplored field of quantum-state-resolved ultrafast dynamics in 3D topological Dirac semimetals.
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spellingShingle Excited States Band Mapping and Ultrafast Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Topological Dirac Semimetal 1T-ZrTe$_2$
Fragkos, Sotirios
Symeonidou, Evgenia
Lasserre, Emile
Fabre, Baptiste
Descamps, Dominique
Petit, Stéphane
Tsipas, Polychronis
Mairesse, Yann
Dimoulas, Athanasios
Beaulieu, Samuel
Materials Science
We performed time- and polarization-resolved extreme ultraviolet momentum microscopy on topological Dirac semimetal candidate 1T-ZrTe$_2$. Excited states band mapping uncovers the previously inaccessible linear dispersion of the Dirac cone above the Fermi level. We study the orbital texture of bands using linear dichroism in photoelectron angular distributions. These observations provide hints on the topological character of 1T-ZrTe$_2$. Time-, energy- and momentum-resolved nonequilibrium carrier dynamics reveal that intra- and inter-band scattering processes play a capital role in the relaxation mechanism, leading to multivalley electron-hole accumulation near the Fermi level. We also show that electrons' inverse lifetime has a linear dependence on their binding energy. Our time- and polarization-resolved XUV photoemission results shed light on the excited state electronic structure of 1T-ZrTe$_2$ and provide valuable insights into the relatively unexplored field of quantum-state-resolved ultrafast dynamics in 3D topological Dirac semimetals.
title Excited States Band Mapping and Ultrafast Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Topological Dirac Semimetal 1T-ZrTe$_2$
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17761