Extraction of the self energy and Eliashberg function from angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy using the \textsc{xARPES} code

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Authors: Thomas Waas, Christophe Berthod, Jan Berges, Nicola Marzari, J. Hugo Dil, Samuel Poncé
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Abstract

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is a powerful experimental technique for studying anisotropic many-body interactions through the electron spectral function. Existing attempts to decompose the spectral function into non-interacting dispersions and electron-phonon, electron-electron, and electron-impurity self-energies rely on linearization of the bands and manual assignment of self-energy magnitudes. Here, we show how self-energies can be extracted consistently for curved dispersions. We extend the maximum-entropy method to Eliashberg-function extraction with Bayesian inference, optimizing the parameters describing the dispersions and the magnitudes of electron-electron and electron-impurity interactions. We compare these novel methodologies with state-of-the-art approaches on model data, then demonstrate their applicability with two high-quality experimental data sets. With the first set, we identify the phonon modes of a two-dimensional electron liquid on TiO2-terminated SrTiO3. With the second set, we obtain unprecedented agreement between two Eliashberg functions of Li-doped graphene extracted from separate dispersions. We release these functionalities in the novel Python code xARPES. This submission contains all the files and scripts needed to generate the figures and tables of the \textsc{xARPES} paper.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism Advanced Chemical Physics Studies

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NCCR MARVEL
Publication date
5 March 2026
Language
EN
Document type
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