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Unoccupied electronic states of icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystals: Evidence of image potential resonance and pseudogap
Physical Review B
  • M. Maniraj, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
  • Abhishek Rai, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
  • S. R. Barman, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
  • M. Krajčí, Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Deborah L. Schlagel, Ames Laboratory
  • Thomas A. Lograsso, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • K. Horn, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
9-15-2014
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.90.115407
Abstract
We study the unoccupied region of the electronic structure of the fivefold symmetric surface of an icosahedral (i) Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystal. A feature that exhibits parabolic dispersion with an effective mass of (1.15±0.1)me and tracks the change in the work function is assigned to an image potential resonance because our density functional calculation shows an absence of band gap in the respective energy region. We show that Sn grows pseudomorphically on i−Al−Pd−Mn as predicted by density functional theory calculations, and the energy of the image potential resonance tracks the change in the work function with Sn coverage. The image potential resonance appears much weaker in the spectrum from the related crystalline Al-Pd-Mn surface, demonstrating that its strength is related to the compatibility of the quasiperiodic wave functions in i−Al−Pd−Mn with the free-electron-like image potential states. Our investigation of the energy region immediately above EF provides unambiguous evidence for the presence of a pseudogap, in agreement with our density functional theory calculations.
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This article is published as Maniraj, M., Abhishek Rai, S. R. Barman, M. Krajčí, Deborah L. Schlagel, Thomas A. Lograsso, and Karsten Horn. "Unoccupied electronic states of icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystals: Evidence of image potential resonance and pseudogap." Physical Review B 90, no. 11 (2014): 115407. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.115407. Posted with permission.

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American Physical Society
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Citation Information
M. Maniraj, Abhishek Rai, S. R. Barman, M. Krajčí, et al.. "Unoccupied electronic states of icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystals: Evidence of image potential resonance and pseudogap" Physical Review B Vol. 90 Iss. 11 (2014) p. 115407
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas_lograsso/260/