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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…

The intermetallic compound BaFe2Al9 exhibits unusual physical properties associated with a charge density wave (CDW) transition. Unlike conventional CDW materials, which typically display subtle structural distortions or lattice…

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

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

Charge density waves (CDW) are modulations of the electron density and the atomic lattice that develop in some crystalline materials at low temperature. We report an unusual example of a CDW in BaFe$_2$Al$_9$ below 100 K. In contrast to the…

We demonstrate that charge density wave (CDW) phase transition occurs on the surface of electronically doped multilayer graphene when the Fermi level approaches the M points (also known as van Hove singularities where the density of states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Gen Long , Shuigang Xu , Ting Zhang , Zefei Wu , Wing Ki Wong , Tianyi Han , Jiangxiazi Lin , Yuan Cai , Ning Wang

Collective phenomena in solids can be sensitive to the dimensionality of the system; a case of special interest is VSe2, which shows a (r7 x r3) charge density wave (CDW) in the single layer with the three-fold symmetry in the normal phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 P. Chen , Y. -H. Chan , R. -Y. Liu , H. T. Zhang , Q. Gao , A. -V. Fedorov , M. Y. Chou , T. -C. Chiang

Charge density wave (CDW) states in solids bear an intimate connection to underlying fermiology. Modification of the latter by a suitable perturbation provides an attractive handle to unearth novel CDW states. Here, we combine extensive…

Electron-lattice coupling effects in low dimensional materials give rise to charge density wave (CDW) order and phase transitions. These phenomena are critical ingredients for superconductivity and predominantly occur in metallic model…

Using first-principles calculations, we identify the origin of the observed charge density wave (CDW) formation in a layered kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$. It is revealed that the structural distortion of kagome lattice forming the trimeric…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-02 Chongze Wang , Shuyuan Liu , Hyunsoo Jeon , Jun-Hyung Cho

The formation of a charge density wave (CDW) in two-dimensional (2D) materials caused by Peierls instability is a controversial topic. This study investigates the extensively debated role of Fermi surface nesting in causing the CDW state in…

The charge density wave (CDW), a translational symmetry breaking electronic liquid, plays a pivotal role in correlated quantum materials, such as high-T$_c$ superconductors and topological semimetals. Recently, CDWs that possibly intertwine…

Charge density wave (CDW) is a spontaneous spatial modulation of electric charges in solids whose general microscopic descriptions are yet to be completed. Layered kagome metals of $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$ ($A$ = K, Rb, Cs) provide a unique chance to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-16 Changwon Park , Young-Woo Son

In the standard model of charge density wave (CDW) transitions, the displacement along a single phonon mode lowers the total electronic energy by creating a gap at the Fermi level, making the CDW a metal--insulator transition. Here, using…

Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), together with density-functional theory (DFT) calculation, we report the formation of charge density wave (CDW) and its interplay with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-24 Peng Li , Baijiang Lv , Yuan Fang , Wei Guo , Zhongzheng Wu , Yi Wu , Cheng-Maw Cheng , Dawei Shen , Yuefeng Nie , Luca Petaccia , Chao Cao , Zhu-An Xu , Yang Liu

We report experimental evidence of charge density wave (CDW) transition in monolayer 1T-VTe$_2$ film. 4$\times$4 reconstruction peaks are observed by low energy electron diffraction below the transition temperature $T_{CDW}$ = 186 K.…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-18 Yuan Wang , Junhai Ren , Jiaheng Li , Yujia Wang , Huining Peng , Pu Yu , Wenhui Duan , Shuyun Zhou

The collective charge density wave (CDW) conduction is modulated by a transverse single-particle current in a transistor-like device. Nonequilibrium conditions in this geometry lead to an exponential reduction of the depinning threshold,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Markovic , M. A. H. Dohmen , H. S. J. van der Zant

The physics of a genuine one-dimensional system in which electrons are confined in one direction remains unclear. The actual electronic state of such a genuinely one-dimensional system has not been investigated in previous experiments, for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 S. Tanda , S. Kashimoto , H. Yamamoto , K. Inagaki , H. Nobukane , Y. Fukuda

Charge-density-wave (CDW) is a modulation of the conduction electron density in a conductor. Under low temperature, it can spontaneously happen in some compounds that consist of anisotropic one-dimensional crystal structures, via a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Ting-Ting Kang

Since their theoretical prediction by Peierls in the 30s, charge density waves (CDW) have been one of the most commonly encountered electronic phases in low dimensional metallic systems. The instability mechanism originally proposed…