Layered transition metal dichalcogenides have rich phase diagram and they feature two dimensionality on numerous physical properties. Co1/3NbS2 is one of the newest members of this family where Co atoms are intercalated into the Van der Waals gaps between NbS2 layers. We study the three-dimensional electronic band structure of Co1/3NbS2 using both surface and bulk sensitive angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We show that the electronic bands do not fit into the rigid-band-shift picture after the Co intercalation. Instead, Co1/3NbS2 displays a different orbital character near the Fermi level compared to the pristine NbS2 compound and has a clear band dispersion in kz direction despite its layered structure. Our photoemission study demonstrates the out-of-plane electronic correlations introduced by the Co intercalation, thus offering a new perspective on this compound. Finally, we propose how Fermi level tuning could lead to exotic phases such as spin density wave instability.
@article{arxiv.2203.00675,
title = {Visualizing the out-of-plane electronic dispersions in an intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide},
author = {Xian P. Yang and Harrison LaBollita and Zi-Jia Cheng and Hari Bhandari and Tyler A. Cochran and Jia-Xin Yin and Md. Shafayat Hossain and Ilya Belopolski and Qi Zhang and Yuxiao Jiang and Nana Shumiya and Daniel Multer and Maksim Liskevich and Dmitry A. Usanov and Yanliu Dang and Vladimir N. Strocov and Albert V. Davydov and Nirmal J. Ghimire and Antia S. Botana and M. Zahid Hasan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.00675},
year = {2022}
}