Nature Communications (May 2020)

Mottness versus unit-cell doubling as the driver of the insulating state in 1T-TaS2

  • C. J. Butler,
  • M. Yoshida,
  • T. Hanaguri,
  • Y. Iwasa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16132-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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In many strongly correlated systems the coupling of electronic and lattice degrees of freedom leads to ambiguity over the mechanism driving electronic phase transitions. Here the authors show that inter-layer effects play an important role in the charge ordering transition of 1T-TaS2.