Optical spectroscopy study of Nd(O,F)BiS2 single crystals

We present an optical spectroscopy study on F-substituted NdOBiS2 superconducting single crystals grown using the KCl/LiCl flux method. The measurement reveals a simple metallic response with a relatively low screened plasma edge near 5000 cm(-1). The plasma frequency is estimated to be 2.1 eV, which is much smaller than the value expected from the first-principles calculations for an electron doping level of x = 0.5, but very close to the value based on a doping level of 7% of itinerant electrons per Bi site as determined by the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) experiment. The energy scales of the interband transitions are also well reproduced by the first-principles calculations. The results suggest an absence of correlation effect in the compound, which essentially rules out the exotic pairing mechanism for superconductivity or scenario based on the strong electronic correlation effect. The study also reveals that the system is far from a charge-density wave (CDW) instability as being widely discussed for a doping level of x = 0.5.Physics, Condensed MatterSCI(E)6ARTICLEnlwang@pku.edu.cn5null9