Strongly correlated materials: ARPES vs LDA/DMFT

Ansgar Liebsch

Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany


The investigation of the electronic properties of strongly correlated materials using ARPES is complicated because of the superposition of bulk and surface contributions. Initial inconsistencies between ARPES data, on the one hand, and bulk data and LDA/DMFT predictions, on the other hand, in systems such as SrxCa1-xVO3, SrxCa1-xRuO3 and SrxCa2-xRuO4 were resolved by identification of surface-induced modification of single-particle and many-body features. Recent ARPES data and LDA/DMFT predictions on NaxCoO2 also exhibit a striking, qualitative discrepancy. Possible reasons for this inconsistency will be discussed.