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| author | Chen, Haiyang Wang, Fo-Hong Gao, Qiang Gao, Xue-Jian Chen, Zhenhua Huang, Yaobo Law, Kam Tuen Xu, Xiao Yan Chen, Peng |
| author_facet | Chen, Haiyang Wang, Fo-Hong Gao, Qiang Gao, Xue-Jian Chen, Zhenhua Huang, Yaobo Law, Kam Tuen Xu, Xiao Yan Chen, Peng |
| contents | Mott insulators with localized magnetic moments will exhibit a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state when the quantum fluctuations are strong enough to suppress the ordering of the spins. Such an entangled state will give rise to collective excitations, in which spin and charge information are carried separately. Our angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements on single-layer 1T-TaS2 show a flat band around the zone center and a gap opening of about 200 meV in the low temperature, indicating 2D Mott insulating nature in the system. This flat band is dispersionless in momentum space but shows anomalously broad width around the zone center and the spectral weight decays rapidly as momentum increases. The observation is described as a spectral continuum from electron fractionalization, corroborated by a low energy effective model.The intensity of the flat band is reduced by surface doping with magnetic adatoms and the gap is closing, a result from the interaction between spin impurities coupled with spinons and the chargons, which gives rise to a charge redistribution. Doping with nonmagnetic impurities behaves differently as the chemical potential shift dominates. These findings provide insight into the QSL states of strongly correlated electrons on 2D triangular lattices. |
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| spellingShingle | Spectroscopic evidence for possible quantum spin liquid behavior in a two-dimensional Mott insulator Chen, Haiyang Wang, Fo-Hong Gao, Qiang Gao, Xue-Jian Chen, Zhenhua Huang, Yaobo Law, Kam Tuen Xu, Xiao Yan Chen, Peng Strongly Correlated Electrons Mott insulators with localized magnetic moments will exhibit a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state when the quantum fluctuations are strong enough to suppress the ordering of the spins. Such an entangled state will give rise to collective excitations, in which spin and charge information are carried separately. Our angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements on single-layer 1T-TaS2 show a flat band around the zone center and a gap opening of about 200 meV in the low temperature, indicating 2D Mott insulating nature in the system. This flat band is dispersionless in momentum space but shows anomalously broad width around the zone center and the spectral weight decays rapidly as momentum increases. The observation is described as a spectral continuum from electron fractionalization, corroborated by a low energy effective model.The intensity of the flat band is reduced by surface doping with magnetic adatoms and the gap is closing, a result from the interaction between spin impurities coupled with spinons and the chargons, which gives rise to a charge redistribution. Doping with nonmagnetic impurities behaves differently as the chemical potential shift dominates. These findings provide insight into the QSL states of strongly correlated electrons on 2D triangular lattices. |
| title | Spectroscopic evidence for possible quantum spin liquid behavior in a two-dimensional Mott insulator |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11778 |