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Charge density waves (CDWs) are a widespread collective electronic order in quantum materials, furnishing key insights into symmetry breaking and competing phases. However, their dynamic control with external fields remains a pivotal…
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Chirality is essential for various amazing phenomena in life and matter. However,chirality and its switching in electronic superlattices, such as charge density wave(CDW) arrays, remain elusive. In this study, we characterize the chirality…
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We studied the resistive memory switching in pulsed laser deposited amorphous LaHoO3 (LHO) thin films for non-volatile resistive random access memory (RRAM) applications. Nonpolar resistive switching (RS) was achieved in PtLHOPt memory…
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Two-dimensional (2D) materials are known to possess emergent properties that are not found in their bulk counterparts. Recent experiments have shown a $\sqrt7 \times \sqrt3$ charge density wave (CDW) in monolayer 1T-VSe$_2$, in contrast to…
Measurements of the nonlinear conductivity in NbSe$_3$ when the high-T and the low-T charge-density waves (CDWs) are simultaneously sliding have been performed. It is shown that the threshold electric field, $E_{t1}$, for depinning the…
Electrical switching has been observed in carefully designed metal-insulator-metal devices built at small geometries. These devices are also commonly known as memristors and consist of specific materials such as transition metal oxides,…
Charge density wave (CDW) orders in YNiC2 are studied by means of combined experimental and computational techniques. On the experimental side, single crystals grown by the floating-zone method were examined by means of X-ray diffraction,…
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Upon excitation with an intense ultrafast laser pulse, a symmetry-broken ground state can undergo a non-equilibrium phase transition through pathways dissimilar from those in thermal equilibrium. Determining the mechanism underlying these…
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The two charge-density wave (CDW) transitions in NbSe$_3$ %at wave numbers at $\bm{q_1}$ and $\bm{q_2}$, occurring at the surface were investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) on \emph{in situ} cleaved $(\bm{b},\bm{c})$ plane.…
We present a study of charge density wave (CDW) ordering in CeTe$_3$ at room temperature using a scanning tunneling microscope and Raman spectroscopy. Two characteristic CDW ordering wavevectors obtained from the Fourier analysis are…
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