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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 15(89), 2014

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.89.155115

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Phonon-assisted optical excitation in the narrow bandgap Mott insulator Sr3Ir2O7

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Abstract

We examined the temperature (T) evolution of the optical conductivity spectra of Sr$_3$Ir$_2$O$_7$ over a wide range of 10-400 K. The system was barely insulating, exhibiting a small indirect bandgap of $∼$0.1 eV. The low-energy features of the optical d-d excitation (${\hbar}{ω}$ $