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IOP Publishing, Chinese Physics Letters, 8(40), p. 087101, 2023

DOI: 10.1088/0256-307x/40/8/087101

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Spectrum of the Hole Excitation in Spin-Orbit Mott Insulator Na<sub>2</sub>IrO<sub>3</sub>

Journal article published in 2023 by Wei Wang ORCID, Zhao-Yang Dong, Shun-Li Yu, Jian-Xin Li
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Abstract

We study the motion of a hole with internal degrees of freedom, introduced to the zigzag magnetic ground state of Na2IrO3, by using the self-consistent Born approximation. We find that the low-, intermediate-, and high-energy spectra are primarily attributed to the singlet, triplet, and quintet hole contributions, respectively. The spectral functions exhibit distinct features such as the electron-like dispersion of low-energy states near the Γ point, the maximum M-point intensity of mid-energy states, and the hole-like dispersion of high-energy states. These features are robust and almost insensitive to the exchange model and Hund’s coupling, and are in qualitative agreement with the angular-resolved photoemission spectra observed in Na2IrO3. Our results reveal that the interference between internal degrees of freedom in different sublattices plays an important role in inducing the complex dispersions.