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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.216403
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [FOR1346]
- Helmholtz Association [HA216/EMMI]
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Potassium-doped picene (K(x)picene) has recently been reported to be a superconductor at x 3 with critical temperatures up to 18 K. Here we study the electronic structure of K-doped picene films by photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio density functional theory combined with dynamical mean-field theory (DFT + DMFT). Experimentally we observe that, except for spurious spectral weight due to the lack of a homogeneous chemical potential at low K concentrations (x approximate to 1), the spectra always display a finite energy gap. This result is supported by our DFT + DMFT calculations which provide clear evidence that K(x)picene is a Mott insulator for integer doping concentrations x 1, 2, and 3. We discuss various scenarios to understand the discrepancies with previous reports of superconductivity and metallic behavior.
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