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Incommensurate charge density waves (CDW) have the extraordinary ability to display non-Ohmic behavior when submitted to an external field. The mechanism leading to this non trivial dynamics is still not well understood, although recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 E. Bellec , I. Gonzalez-Vallejo , V. L. R. Jacques , A. A. Sinchenko , A. P. Orlov , P. Monceau , S. J. Leake , D. Le Bolloc'h

We employed a scanning tunneling microscope to image the (001) surface topography and local density of states (LDOS) in La$_{2-2x}$Sr$_{1+2x}$Mn$_2$O$_7$ (x=0.32, LSMO) single crystals below the Curie temperature (T$_C$ = 120 K). The LDOS…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Jeehoon Kim , Junwei Huang , J. -S. Zhou , J. B. Goodenough , J. F. Mitchell , Alex de Lozanne

Charge density waves (CDWs) are periodic modulations of the conduction electron density in solids. They are collective states that arise from intrinsic instabilities often present in low dimensional electronic systems. The layered…

The concept of a Charge Density Wave (CDW) permeates much of condensed matter physics and chemistry. Conceptually, CDWs have their origin rooted in the instability of a one-dimensional system described by Peierls. The extension of this…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-09 Xuetao Zhu , Yanwei Cao , Jiandi Zhang , E. W. Plummer , Jiandong Guo

Charge density wave (CDW) is a widely concerned emergent phenomenon in condensed matter physics. To establish a systematic understanding of CDW, we develop a diagrammatic self-consistent-field approach for cubic Holstein model employing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-16 Hao Wang , Qiang Luo , Ji Chen

TaTe$_4$, a metallic charge-density wave (CDW) material discovered decades ago, has attracted renewed attention due to its rich interesting properties such as pressure-induced superconductivity and candidate non-trivial topological phase.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-07 R. Z. Xu , X. Du , J. S. Zhou , X. Gu , Q. Q. Zhang , Y. D. Li , W. X. Zhao , F. W. Zheng , M. Arita , K. Shimada , T. K. Kim , C. Cacho , Y. F. Guo , Z. K. Liu , Y. L. Chen , L. X. Yang

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.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-29 Christophe Brun , Zhao-Zhong Wang , Pierre Monceau , Serguei Brazovskii

Charge density waves (CDWs) in two-dimensional (2D) materials have been a major focus of research in condensed matter physics for several decades due to their potential for quantum-based technologies. In particular, CDWs can induce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Martin Gutierrez-Amigo , Fang Yuan , Davide Campi , Leslie M. Schoop , Maia G. Vergniory , Ion Errea

Hexagonally deformed Fermi surfaces and strong nesting, found in topological insulators (TIs) such as $Bi_2Se_3$ and $Bi_2Te_3$, have led to several predictions of the existence of Density Wave order in these systems. Recent evidence for…

Charge density waves (CDWs) are collective electronic states that can reshape and melt, even while confined within a rigid atomic crystal. In two dimensions, melting is predicted to be distinct, proceeding through partially ordered nematic…

We construct a gravity dual for charge density waves (CDW) in which the translational symmetry along one spatial direction is spontaneously broken. Our linear perturbation calculation on the gravity side produces the frequency dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Yi Ling , Chao Niu , Jianpin Wu , Zhuoyu Xian , Hongbao Zhang

A charge density wave (CDW) of a nonzero ordering vector $\mathbf{q}$ couple electronic states at $\mathbf{k}$ and $\mathbf{k}+\mathbf{q}$ statically, giving rise to a reduced Brillouin zone (RBZ) due to the band folding effect. Its…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-20 Ming-Chien Hsu , Bahadur Singh , Chuang-Han Hsu , Su-Yang Xu , Hsin Lin , Shin-Ming Huang

We present the first direct study of charge density wave (CDW) formation in quasi-2D single layer LaTe_2 using high-resolution angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and low energy electron diffraction (LEED). CDW formation is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 D. R. Garcia , G. -H. Gweon , S. Y. Zhou , J. Graf , C. M. Jozwiak , M. H. Jung , Y. S. Kwon , A. Lanzara

Charge density wave (CDW) is discovered within a wide interval in solids, however, its microscopic nature is still not transparent in most realistic materials, and the recently studied chiral ones with chiral structural distortion remain…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-11 Shuai Zhang , Kaifa Luo , Tiantian Zhang

In itinerant magnetic systems, a spin density wave (SDW) state can be induced by Fermi surface nesting and electron-electron interaction. It may intertwine with other orders such as charge density wave (CDW), while their relation is still…

Using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, for a monolayer of transition metal dichalcogenide H-NbS$_2$ grown by molecular beam epitaxy on graphene, we provide unambiguous evidence for a charge density wave (CDW) with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Timo Knispel , Jan Berges , Arne Schobert , Erik G. C. P. van Loon , Wouter Jolie , Tim Wehling , Thomas Michely , Jeison Fischer

We report the electronic structure of CuTe with a high charge density wave (CDW) transition temperature Tc = 335 K by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). An anisotropic charge density wave gap with a maximum value of 190 meV…

Superconductivity (SC) and charge-density wave (CDW) are two contrasting yet relevant collective electronic states which have received sustained interest for decades. Here we report that, in a layered europium bismuth sulfofluoride,…

We use high-resolution angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the electronic structure of the charge density wave (CDW) system LaSb$_2$. This compound is among an interesting…

Recently discovered Z2 topological kagome metals AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, and Cs) exhibit charge density wave (CDW) phases and novel superconducting paring states, providing a versatile platform for studying the interplay between electron…