Electronic structure and signature of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid state in epitaxial CoSb$_{1-x}$ nanoribbons

TL;DR

This study reveals that epitaxial CoSb$_{1-x}$ nanoribbons on SrTiO$_3$ exhibit Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid behavior with strong electronic correlations, characterized by power-law spectral suppression and universal temperature scaling.

Contribution

First experimental observation of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid state in epitaxial CoSb$_{1-x}$ nanoribbons using ARPES, highlighting strong correlations in this quasi-one-dimensional system.

Findings

Straight Fermi surfaces with no lateral dispersion

Power-law spectral suppression near Fermi level

TLL parameter of approximately 0.21 indicating strong correlations

Abstract

Recently, monolayer CoSb/SrTiO$_3$ has been proposed as a candidate harboring interfacial superconductivity in analogy with monolayer FeSe/SrTiO$_3$. Experimentally, while the CoSb-based compounds manifesting as nanowires and thin films have been realized on SrTiO$_3$ substrates, serving as a rich playground, their electronic structures are still unknown and yet to be resolved. Here, we have fabricated CoSb$_{1-x}$ nanoribbons with quasi-one-dimensional stripes on SrTiO$_3$(001) substrates using molecular beam epitaxy, and investigated the electronic structure by in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Straight Fermi surfaces without lateral dispersions are observed. CoSb$_{1-x}$/SrTiO$_3$ is slightly hole doped, where the interfacial charge transfer is opposite to that in monolayer FeSe/SrTiO$_3$. The spectral weight near Fermi level exhibits power-law-like suppression and obeys a universal temperature scaling, serving as the signature of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) state. The obtained TLL parameter of $\sim$0.21 shows the underlying strong correlations. Our results not only suggest CoSb$_{1-x}$ nanoribbon as a representative TLL system, but also provide clues for further investigations on the CoSb-related interface.