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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

We study dynamical instability and chiral symmetry breaking in three dimensional Weyl semimetals, which turns Weyl semimetals into "axion insulators". Charge density waves (CDW) is found to be the natural consequence of the chiral symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-16 Zhong Wang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Charge density waves (CDWs), electronic crystals that form within a host solid, have long been speculated to melt into a spatially textured electronic liquid. Though they have not been previously detected, liquid CDWs may nonetheless be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-09 Joshua S. H. Lee , Thomas M. Sutter , Goran Karapetrov , Pietro Musumeci , Anshul Kogar

Layered transition metal dichalcogenide 1T-NbSe_2 is a good candidate to explore the charge density wave (CDW) and Mott physics. However, the effects of stacking orders and interlayer coupling in CDW 1T-NbSe_2 are still less explored and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-07 Tao Jiang , Haotian Wang , Heng Gao , Qinghe Zheng , Zhenya Li , Wei Ren

A prior report of the emergence of chirality for the (2x2x2) charge density wave (CDW) in TiSe2 has attracted much interest; the drastic symmetry breaking is highly unusual with few precedents [1]. In that study, key evidence was provided…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-12 Meng-Kai Lin , Joseph A. Hlevyack , Peng Chen , Ro-Ya Liu , T. -C. Chiang

Thinning crystalline materials to two dimensions (2D) creates a rich playground for electronic phases, including charge, spin, superconducting, and topological order. Bulk materials hosting charge density waves (CDWs), when reduced to…

Charge density waves (CDWs) underpin the electronic properties of many complex materials. Near-equilibrium CDW order is linearly coupled to a periodic, atomic-structural distortion, and the dynamics is understood in terms of amplitude and…

Tailored optical excitations can steer a system along non-equilibrium pathways to metastable states with specific structural or electronic properties. The light-induced hidden state of 1T-TaS$_{2}$, with its strongly enhanced conductivity…

Charge density wave (CDW) implies a periodic modulation of the charge density. Typically observed in metallic systems, CDWs arise from Fermi surface instabilities, resulting in the total or partial gapping of the Fermi surface. Here, we…

Charge density wave (CDW) is a collective quantum phenomenon in metals and features a wave-like modulation of the conduction electron density. A microscopic understanding and experimental control of this many-body electronic state in…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-19 Ming-Qiang Ren , Sha Han , Jia-Qi Fan , Shujing Li , Shu-Ze Wang , Fawei Zheng , Ping Zhang , Xu-Cun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue , Can-Li Song

Charge-density waves (CDWs) are correlated states of matter, where the electronic density is modulated periodically as a consequence of electronic and phononic interactions. Often, CDW phases coexist with other correlated states, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Lisa M. Rütten , Eva Liebhaber , Kai Rossnagel , Katharina J. Franke

Chirality-driven optical properties in charge density waves are of fundamental and practical importance. Here, we investigate the interaction between circularly polarized light and emergent chiral stacking orders in quasi-one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Sun-Woo Kim , Hyun-Jung Kim , Sangmo Cheon , Tae-Hwan Kim

Strongly correlated materials possess a complex energy landscape and host many interesting physical phenomena, including charge density waves (CDWs). CDWs have been observed and extensively studied in many materials since their first…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-14 Weijian Li , Gururaj V. Naik

The transition metal dichalcogenide 1$T$-TiSe$_2$ is a quasi-two-dimensional layered material undergoing a commensurate 2 $\times$ 2 $\times$ 2 charge density wave (CDW) transition with a weak periodic lattice distortion (PLD) below…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-11 B. Hildebrand , T. Jaouen , M. -L. Mottas , G. Monney , C. Barreteau , E. Giannini , D. R. Bowler , P. Aebi

The spatially uniform electronic density characteristic of a metal can become unstable at low temperatures, leading to the formation of charge density waves (CDWs). These CDWs, observed in dichalcogenides, cuprates, and pnictides arise from…

The subtle interplay of band topology and symmetry broken phase, induced by electron correlations, has immense contemporary relevance and potentially offers novel physical insights. Here, we demonstrate charge density wave (CDW) in bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Abhishek Juyal , Vinod Kumar Dwivedi , Sonu Verma , Shibabrata Nandi , Amit Agarwal , Soumik Mukhopadhyay

The interplay between charge density waves (CDWs) and superconductivity is a central theme in quantum materials, yet how CDW phase textures govern vortex topology remains poorly understood. We develop a theoretical framework showing that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-20 Zhenhua Zhu , Ziqiang Wang , Dong E. Liu

Compelling evidence suggests distinct correlated electron behavior may exist only in clean 2D materials such as 1T-TaS2. Unfortunately, experiment and theory suggest that extrinsic disorder in free standing 2D layers disrupts…

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 a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy study of the charge density wave (CDW) order in 1$T$-TiSe$_2$ and Cu$_{0.08}$TiSe$_2$. In pristine 1$T$-TiSe$_2$ we observe a long-range coherent commensurate CDW (C-CDW) order. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-14 Shichao Yan , Davide Iaia , Emilia Morosan , Eduardo Fradkin , Peter Abbamonte , Vidya Madhavan