Devil's staircase transition of the electronic structures in CeSb.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 Jun 2020
08 Jun 2020
Historique:
received:
10
12
2019
accepted:
15
05
2020
entrez:
10
6
2020
pubmed:
10
6
2020
medline:
10
6
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Solids with competing interactions often undergo complex phase transitions with a variety of long-periodic modulations. Among such transition, devil's staircase is the most complex phenomenon, and for it, CeSb is the most famous material, where a number of the distinct phases with long-periodic magnetostructures sequentially appear below the Néel temperature. An evolution of the low-energy electronic structure going through the devil's staircase is of special interest, which has, however, been elusive so far despite 40 years of intense research. Here, we use bulk-sensitive angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and reveal the devil's staircase transition of the electronic structures. The magnetic reconstruction dramatically alters the band dispersions at each transition. Moreover, we find that the well-defined band picture largely collapses around the Fermi energy under the long-periodic modulation of the transitional phase, while it recovers at the transition into the lowest-temperature ground state. Our data provide the first direct evidence for a significant reorganization of the electronic structures and spectral functions occurring during the devil's staircase.
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pubmed: 32514054
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16707-6
pii: 10.1038/s41467-020-16707-6
pmc: PMC7280508
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eng
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