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  • Solid-state physics
  • Materials science
  • Superconductivity

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  • Crystalline solids from superatomic building blocks offer tunable properties.
  • Rhenium hexaselenide chloride (Re6Se8Cl2) is a layered van der Waals material.
  • It's an indirect gap semiconductor that can superconduct when doped.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the temperature dependence of the valence band edge (VBE) in Re6Se8Cl2.
  • Understand how carrier properties are affected by phonon coupling in this material.

Main Methods:

  • Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) was used.
  • Probed the valence band edge (VBE) of Re6Se8Cl2.

Main Results:

  • Valence band edge (VBE) dispersion strongly depends on temperature.
  • Bandwidth decreased by an order of magnitude from 120 ± 30 meV at 70 K to ~10 ± 20 meV at 300 K.
  • Observed behavior is consistent with dominant polaronic effects.

Conclusions:

  • Polaronic effects significantly influence carrier properties in Re6Se8Cl2.
  • The findings align with the Holstein polaron model for molecular solids.