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Solids undergoing a transition from order to disorder experience the proliferation of topological defects. The melting process generates transient quantum states. However, their dynamical nature with femtosecond lifetime hinders exploration…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-15 Sanghun Lee , Eunseo Kim , Junho Bang , Jongho Park , Changyoung Kim , Dirk Wulferding , Doohee Cho

The charge density wave (CDW) is a macroscopic quantum state characterized by long-range lattice distortion and modulated charge density. Conventionally, CDWs compete with other electronic orders (e.g. superconductivity) and are suppressed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Liucheng Chen , Mingwei Ma , Xiaohui Yu , Fang Hong

We demonstrate the sensitivity of transverse-field muon spin rotation (TF-muSR) to static charge-density-wave (CDW) order in the bulk of 2H-NbSe2. In the presence of CDW order the quadrupolar interaction of the 93Nb nuclei with the local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-06 C. Gomez , D. Braam , S. Tezok , J. E. Sonier

Layered transition-metal compounds have received great attention owing to their novel physical properties. Here, we present the structural, electronic, thermal, and magnetic properties of BaMn2Sb2 and Ba2Mn3Sb2O2 single crystals, both with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-22 Qiang Zhang , Zhenyu Diao , Huibo Cao , Ahmad Saleheen , Ramakanta Chapai , Dongliang Gong , Shane Stadler , R. Jin

An incommensurate charge density wave (CDW) is a periodic modulation of charge that breaks translational symmetry incongruently with the underlying lattice. Its low-energy excitations, the phason, are collective, gapless phase fluctuations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-05 Paula Mellado , Francisco Muñoz , Javiera Cabezas-Escares

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently been shown to demonstrate non-volatile resistive switching (NVRS), offering significant advantages such as high-density integration and low energy consumption due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Brian H. Lee , Jameela Fatheema , Deji Akinwande , Wennie Wang

The newly discovered kagome metals AV$_3$Sb$_5$ (A = K, Rb, Cs) offer an exciting route to study exotic phases arising due to interplay between electronic correlations and topology. Besides superconductivity, these materials exhibit a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-14 Alexei M. Tsvelik , Saheli Sarkar

Charge density wave (CDW) phases are symmetry-reduced states of matter in which a periodic modulation of the electronic charge frequently leads to drastic changes of the electronic spectrum, including the emergence of energy gaps. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Bahadur Singh , Chuang-Han Hsu , Wei-Feng Tsai , Vitor M. Pereira , Hsin Lin

Suppressing of an ordered state that competes with superconductivity is one route to enhance superconducting transition temperatures. Whereas the effect of suppressing magnetic states is still not fully understood, materials featuring…

Charge density wave (CDW) and their interplay with correlated and topological quantum states are forefront of condensed matter research. The 4$H_{b}$-TaS$_2$ is a CDW ordered quantum heterostructure that is formed by alternative stacking of…

We report on sliding Charge Density Wave (CDW) in the quasi two-dimensional TbTe$_3$ system probed by coherent x-ray diffraction combined with {\it in-situ} transport measurements. We show that the non-Ohmic conductivity in TbTe$_3$ is made…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-08 D. Le Bolloc'h , A. A. Sinchenko , V. L. R. Jacques , L. Ortega , J. E. Lorenzo , G. Chahine , . Lejay , P. Monceau

We study the mean-field theory of charge-density wave (CDW) order in a layered system, including the effect of the long-range Coulomb interaction and of screening by uncondensed electrons. We particularly focus on the conditions necessary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Stuart E. Brown , Eduardo Fradkin , Steven A. Kivelson

The phase transition between charge- and spin-density-wave (CDW, SDW) phases is studied in the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model at half-filling. We discuss whether the transition can be described by the Gaussian and the spin-gap…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Masaaki Nakamura

Superconductivity is often found in a dome around quantum critical points, i.e. 2nd-order quantum phase transitions. Here, we show that an enhancement of superconductivity is avoided at the critical pressure of the charge-density-wave (CDW)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-01 Owen Moulding , Israel Osmond , Felix Flicker , Takaki Muramatsu , Sven Friedemann

We study the charge-density-wave order and its competition with superconductivity in the one-band Hubbard model for high-$T_c$ superconducting cuprates. We use cluster dynamical mean field theory (CDMFT) at $T=0$. The one-band Hubbard model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Sidhartha Shankar Dash , David Sénéchal

We report a significant enhancement of superconducting transition temperature ($\textit{T}_\textrm{c}$) of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) superconductor $\textrm{NbTe}_2$ from 0.56 K to 2.8 K. Detailed x-ray structure analysis…

Exploring the intricate interplay between magnetism and charge density waves has long been a fundamental pursuit at the forefront of condensed matter research. In this letter, based on symmetry analysis and first-principles calculations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Zi-Hao Ding , Lei Wang , Zhen-Feng Ouyang , Jingsi Qiao , Ze-Feng Gao , Wei Ji , Kai Liu , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

We have fabricated longitudinal nanoconstrictions in the charge-density wave conductor (CDW) NbSe$_{3}$ using a focused ion beam and using a mechanically controlled break-junction technique. Conductance peaks are observed below the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. O'Neill , E. Slot , R. E. Thorne , H. S. J. van der Zant

The charge density wave (CDW) phase in 1$T$-TiSe$_2$ is investigated using angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and neutron scattering measurements. Our ARPES results reveal a clear temperature dependence of the chemical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-17 A. Wegner , J. Zhao , J. Li , J. Yang , A. A. Anikin , G. Karapetrov , D. Louca , U. Chatterjee

The charge density wave (CDW) in solids is a collective ground state combining lattice distortions and charge ordering. It is defined by a complex order parameter with an amplitude and a phase. The amplitude and wavelength of the charge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-27 Árpád Pásztor , Alessandro Scarfato , Marcello Spera , Céline Barreteau , Enrico Giannini , Christoph Renner