Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Jun 29;108(26):267003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.267003. Epub 2012 Jun 28.
We present angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Eu(1-x)Gd(x)O through the ferromagnetic metal-insulator transition. In the ferromagnetic phase, we observe Fermi surface pockets at the Brillouin zone boundary, consistent with density functional theory, which predicts a half-metal. Upon warming into the paramagnetic state, our results reveal a strong momentum-dependent evolution of the electronic structure, where the metallic states at the zone boundary are replaced by pseudogapped states at the Brillouin zone center due to the absence of magnetic long-range order of the Eu 4f moments.
我们通过铁磁金属-绝缘体转变展示了 Eu(1-x)Gd(x)O 的角分辨光电子能谱。在铁磁相中,我们在布里渊区边界处观察到费米面口袋,与密度泛函理论的预测一致,该理论预测其为半金属。在升温进入顺磁相时,我们的结果揭示了电子结构的强烈动量依赖演化,由于 Eu 4f 磁矩没有磁长程有序,布里渊区中心的赝能隙态取代了边界处的金属态。