Patterns and driving forces of dimensionality-dependent charge density waves in 2H-type transition metal dichalcogenides

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 2406
• Main Authors: Lin, Dongjing, Li, Shichao, Wen, Jinsheng, Berger, Helmuth, Forró, László, Zhou, Huibin, Jia, Shuang, Taniguchi, Takashi, Watanabe, Kenji, Xi, Xiaoxiang, Bahramy, Mohammad Saeed
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 15.05.2020; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 119/118; 140/133; 639/301/357/1018; 639/766/119/544; 639/766/119/995; Chalcogenides; Charge density waves; Charge distribution; Charge transfer; Dependence; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Niobium; Quantum phenomena; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Tantalum; Transition metal compounds; Trends

Charge density wave (CDW) is a startling quantum phenomenon, distorting a metallic lattice into an insulating state with a periodically modulated charge distribution. Astonishingly, such modulations appear in various patterns even within the same family of materials. Moreover, this phenomenon featur...