Direct Observation of the Bandwidth Control Mott Transition in the NiS2-xSex Multiband System

The bulk electronic structure of NiS2-xSex has been studied across the bandwidth-control Mott transition (BCMT) using soft x-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We show that Se doping does not alter the Fermi surface volume. When approaching the insulating phase with decreasing Se concentration, we observed that the Fermi velocity continuously decreases. Meanwhile, the weight of the coherent quasiparticle, which sits on a large incoherent spectrum, continuously decreases and is transferred to higher binding energies, until it suddenly disappears across the Mott transition. In the insulating phase, there is still finite spectral weight at the Fermi energy, but it is incoherent and dispersionless due to strong correlations. Our results provide a direct observation of the distinct characters of BCMT in a multiband non-half-filled system.