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There has been a recent renewal of interest in charge-density-wave (CDW) phenomena, primarily driven by the emergence of two-dimensional (2D) layered CDW materials, such as 1T-TaS2, characterized by very high transition temperatures to CDW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Guanxiong Liu , Sergey Rumyantsev , Matthew. A. Bloodgood , Tina T. Salguero , Alexander A. Balandin

We report here on time-resolved x-ray diffraction measurements following femtosecond laser excitation in pure bulk chromium. Comparing the evolution of incommensurate charge-density-wave (CDW) and atomic lattice reflections, we show that,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-08 V. Jacques , C. Laulhé , N. Moisan , S. Ravv , D. Le Bolloc'h

We investigate the interplay between charge density wave (CDW) order and topological nodal-line states in square-net materials. Our Ginzburg-Landau theory predicts a CDW instability that generically opens a gap at the Fermi energy while…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-01 Sergey Alekseev , Lei Chen , Jennifer Cano

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

In materials with one-dimensional electronic bands, electron-electron interactions can produce intriguing quantum phenomena, including spin-charge separation and charge density waves (CDW). Most of these systems, however, are non-magnetic,…

The intricate interplay between novel lattice geometry and spontaneous symmetry-breaking states is at the forefront of contemporary research on quantum materials. Recently, the observation of unconventional charge and pairing density waves…

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,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-07 Marta Roman , Simone Di Cataldo , Berthold Stöger , Lisa Reisinger , Emilie Morineau , Kamil K. Kolincio , Herwig Michor

We report on the charge dynamics of kagome FeGe, an antiferromagnet with a charge density wave (CDW) transition at $T_{\mathrm{CDW}} \simeq 105$ K, using polarized infrared spectroscopy and band structure calculations. We reveal pronounced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-03 Shaohui Yi , Zhiyu Liao , Qi Wang , Haiyang Ma , Jianpeng Liu , Xiaokun Teng , Bin Gao , Pengcheng Dai , Yaomin Dai , Jianzhou Zhao , Yanpeng Qi , Bing Xu , Xianggang Qiu

Charge-density-wave (CDW) order has long been interpreted as arising from a Fermi-surface instability in the parent metallic phase. While phonon-electron coupling has been suggested to influence the formation of CDW order in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-08 Yuwen Hu , Feipeng Zheng , Xiao Ren , Ji Feng , Yuan Li

On the kagome lattice, electrons benefit from the simultaneous presence of band topology, flat electronic bands, and van Hove singularities, forming competing or cooperating orders. Understanding the interrelation between these distinct…

Topological kagome systems have been a topic of great interest in condensed matter physics due totheir unique electronic properties. The vanadium-based kagome materials are particularly intrigu-ing since they exhibit exotic phenomena such…

The discovery of a charge density wave (CDW) in the antiferromagnetic kagome metal FeGe has prompted interest in the interplay between kagome physics, CDW, and magnetism. However, a crucial aspect for understanding these emergent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-30 Hengxin Tan , Binghai Yan

A charge density wave (CDW) is a phase of matter characterized by a periodic modulation of the valence electron density accompanied by a distortion of the lattice structure. The microscopic details of CDW formation are closely tied to the…

In the last few years charge density waves (CDWs) have been ubiquitously observed in high-temperature superconducting cuprates and are now the most investigated among the competing orders in the still hot debate on these systems. A wealth…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-21 S. Caprara , C. Di Castro , G. Seibold , M. Grilli

We investigate the thermal-driven charge density wave (CDW) transition of two cubic superconducting intermetallic systems Lu(Pt1-xPdx)2In and (Sr1-xCax)3Ir4Sn13 by means of x-ray diffraction technique. A detailed analysis of the CDW…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 F. B. Carneiro , L. S. I. Veiga , J. R. L. Mardegan , R. Khan , C. Macchiutti , A. Lopez , E. M. Bittar

The recent discovery of an incipient charge density wave (CDW) instability competing with superconductivity in a class of high temperature cuprate superconductors has brought the role of charge order in the cuprate phase diagram under…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-06 Kangjun Seo , Sumanta Tewari

Recently, a first-order phase transition associated with charge density wave (CDW) has been observed at low temperatures in intermetallic compound BaFe$_2$Al$_9$. However, this transition is absent in its isostructural sister compound…

Hole-doped high-temperature cuprate superconductors below optimum doping have small electron-like Fermi surfaces occupying a small fraction of the Brillouin zone. There is strong evidence that this is linked to charge density wave (CDW)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-09 A. Briffa , E. Blackburn , S. M. Hayden , E. A. Yelland , M. W. Long , E. M. Forgan

Charge density wave (CDW) ordering has been an important topic of study for a long time owing to its connection with other exotic phases such as superconductivity and magnetism. The RTe3 (R = rare-earth elements) family of materials…

A charge density wave (CDW) represents an exotic state in which electrons are arranged in a long range ordered pattern in low-dimensional materials. Although our understanding of the fundamental character of CDW has been enriched after…