Effects of finite-range interactions on the one-electron spectral properties of one-dimensional metals: application to Bi/InSb(001)
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Carmelo, José M. P.
Čadež, Tilen
Ohtsubo, Yoshiyuki
Kimura, Shin-ichi
Campbell, David K.
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José MP Carmelo, Tilen Čadež, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Shin-ichi Kimura, David K Campbell. "Effects of finite-range interactions on the one-electron spectral properties of one-dimensional metals: Application to Bi/InSb(001)." Physical Review B, Volume 100, Issue 3, https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.035105
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We study the one-electron spectral properties of one-dimensional interacting electron systems in which the interactions have finite range. We employ a mobile quantum impurity scheme that describes the interactions of the fractionalized excitations at energies above the standard Tomonga-Luttinger liquid limit and show that the phase shifts induced by the impurity describe universal properties of the one-particle spectral function. We find the explicit forms in terms of these phase shifts for the momentum dependent exponents that control the behavior of the spectral function near and at the (k,ω)-plane singularities where most of the spectral weight is located. The universality arises because the line shape near the singularities is independent of the short-distance part of the interaction potentials. For the class of potentials considered here, the charge fractionalized particles have screened Coulomb interactions that decay with a power-law exponent l>5. We apply the theory to the angle-resolved photo-electron spectroscopy (ARPES) in the highly one-dimensional bismuth-induced anisotropic structure on indium antimonide Bi/InSb(001). Our theoretical predictions agree quantitatively with both (i) the experimental value found in Bi/InSb(001) for the exponent α that controls the suppression of the density of states at very small excitation energy ω and (ii) the location in the (k,ω) plane of the experimentally observed high-energy peaks in the ARPES momentum and energy distributions. We conclude with a discussion of experimental properties beyond the range of our present theoretical framework and further open questions regarding the one-electron spectral properties of Bi/InSb(001).
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