INTERPRETATION OF PHOTOEMISSION SPECTRA OF (TASE4)(2)I AS EVIDENCE OFCHARGE-DENSITY-WAVE FLUCTUATIONS

The competition between different and unusual effects in quasi-one-dim ensional conductors makes the direct interpretation of experimental me asurements for these materials both difficult and interesting. We cons ider evidence for the existence of large charge-density-wave fluctuati ons in the conducting phase of the Peierls insulator (TaSe4)(2)I, by c omparing the predictions of a simple Lee, Rice and Anderson theory for such a system with recent angle-resolved photoemission spectra. The a greement obtained suggests that many of the unusual features of these spectra may be explained in this way. This view of the system is contr asted with the behaviour expected of a Luttinger liquid.