Effect of electronic correlations on the quasiparticle dispersion of USb2

Abstract

Angle resolved photoemission experiments have been performed on USb2, and very narrow quasiparticle peaks have been observed in a band which LSDA predicts to osculate the Fermi-energy. The observed band is found to be depressed by 17 meV below the Fermi-energy, furthermore, the inferred quasiparticle dispersion relation for this band exhibits a kink at an energy of about 23 meV below the Fermi-energy. The kink is not found in LSDA calculations and, therefore, is attributable to a change in the quasiparticle mass renormalization by a factor of approximately 2. The existence of a kink in the quasiparticle dispersion relation of a band which does not cross the Fermi-energy is unprecedented. The origin of the observed depression of the band, its quasi-particle mass enhancement, and the characteristic energy are discussed on the basis of a theoretical model.