Nature Communications (Feb 2023)
Signatures of the exciton gas phase and its condensation in monolayer 1T-ZrTe2
- Yekai Song,
- Chunjing Jia,
- Hongyu Xiong,
- Binbin Wang,
- Zhicheng Jiang,
- Kui Huang,
- Jinwoong Hwang,
- Zhuojun Li,
- Choongyu Hwang,
- Zhongkai Liu,
- Dawei Shen,
- Jonathan A. Sobota,
- Patrick Kirchmann,
- Jiamin Xue,
- Thomas P. Devereaux,
- Sung-Kwan Mo,
- Zhi-Xun Shen,
- Shujie Tang
Affiliations
- Yekai Song
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chunjing Jia
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Hongyu Xiong
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Binbin Wang
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
- Zhicheng Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Kui Huang
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
- Jinwoong Hwang
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University
- Zhuojun Li
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Choongyu Hwang
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University
- Zhongkai Liu
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
- Dawei Shen
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jonathan A. Sobota
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Patrick Kirchmann
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Jiamin Xue
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
- Thomas P. Devereaux
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Sung-Kwan Mo
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Zhi-Xun Shen
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Shujie Tang
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36857-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Signatures of an excitonic insulator have been reported in several two-dimensional materials. Here the authors report electronic properties of monolayer ZrTe2 from ARPES and STM measurements that are consistent with the preformed exciton gas phase, a precursor for the excitonic insulator.
