Abstract
Using density functional theory calculations, we investigate the origin of the insulating phase and metal-insulator transition (MIT) in octahedral tantalum disulfide (1T-TaS2), a layered van der Waals material with a prominent two-dimensional (2D) charge density wave (CDW) order. We show that the MIT is driven not by the 2D order itself, but by the vertical ordering of the 2D CDWs or the 3D CDW order. We identify two exceptionally stable 3D CDW configurations; one is insulating and the other is metallic. The competition and mixing of the two CDW configurations account for many mysterious features of the MIT in 1T-TaS2, including the pressure- and doping-induced transitions and the hysteresis behavior. The present results emphasize that interlayer electronic ordering can play an important role in electronic phase transitions in layered materials.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 106404 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 Mar 14 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank K. Rossnagel for kindly providing the ARPES data and Ki-Ha Hong, Changwon Park, and Ji Hoon Shim for helpful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (Grants No. 2017R1D1A1B03033082 and 2018R1A2B6004044) and by the Institute for Basic Science (Grant No. IBS-R014-D1). Computational resources were supported by the Center for Academic Computing at Kyung Hee University.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy(all)