Nonlocal electron correlations in an itinerant ferromagnet

Christian Tusche (), Martin Ellguth, Vitaliy Feyer, Alexander Krasyuk, Carsten Wiemann, Jürgen Henk, Claus M. Schneider and Jürgen Kirschner
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Christian Tusche: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-6)
Martin Ellguth: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik
Vitaliy Feyer: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-6)
Alexander Krasyuk: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik
Carsten Wiemann: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-6)
Jürgen Henk: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Claus M. Schneider: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-6)
Jürgen Kirschner: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Our understanding of the properties of ferromagnetic materials, widely used in spintronic devices, is fundamentally based on their electronic band structure. However, even for the most simple elemental ferromagnets, electron correlations are prevalent, requiring descriptions of their electronic structure beyond the simple picture of independent quasi-particles. Here, we give evidence that in itinerant ferromagnets like cobalt these electron correlations are of nonlocal origin, manifested in a complex self-energy Σσ(E,k) that disperses as function of spin σ, energy E, and momentum vector k. Together with one-step photoemission calculations, our experiments allow us to quantify the dispersive behaviour of the complex self-energy over the whole Brillouin zone. At the same time we observe regions of anomalously large “waterfall”-like band renormalization, previously only attributed to strong electron correlations in high-TC superconductors, making itinerant ferromagnets a paradigmatic test case for the interplay between band structure, magnetism, and many-body correlations.

Date: 2018
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