Recent progress in CVD growth of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides and related heterostructures

Y Zhang, Y Yao, MG Sendeku, L Yin, X Zhan… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, 2D layered materials have received considerable research interest on
account of their substantial material systems and unique physicochemical properties …

The stochastic self-consistent harmonic approximation: calculating vibrational properties of materials with full quantum and anharmonic effects

L Monacelli, R Bianco, M Cherubini… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The efficient and accurate calculation of how ionic quantum and thermal fluctuations impact
the free energy of a crystal, its atomic structure, and phonon spectrum is one of the main …

Observation of Unconventional Charge Density Wave without Acoustic Phonon Anomaly in Kagome Superconductors (, Cs)

H Li, TT Zhang, T Yilmaz, YY Pai, CE Marvinney… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
The combination of nontrivial band topology and symmetry-breaking phases gives rise to
novel quantum states and phenomena such as topological superconductivity, quantum …

[HTML][HTML] Softening of a flat phonon mode in the kagome ScV6Sn6

A Korshunov, H Hu, D Subires, Y Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Geometrically frustrated kagome lattices are raising as novel platforms to engineer
correlated topological electron flat bands that are prominent to electronic instabilities. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Signature of spin-phonon coupling driven charge density wave in a kagome magnet

H Miao, TT Zhang, HX Li, G Fabbris, AH Said… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The intertwining between spin, charge, and lattice degrees of freedom can give rise to
unusual macroscopic quantum states, including high-temperature superconductivity and …

[HTML][HTML] Electron–phonon physics from first principles using the EPW code

H Lee, S Poncé, K Bushick, S Hajinazar… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
EPW is an open-source software for ab initio calculations of electron–phonon interactions
and related materials properties. The code combines density functional perturbation theory …

[HTML][HTML] Competing charge-density wave instabilities in the kagome metal ScV6Sn6

S Cao, C Xu, H Fukui, T Manjo, Y Dong, M Shi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Owing to its unique geometry, the kagome lattice hosts various many-body quantum states
including frustrated magnetism, superconductivity, and charge-density waves (CDWs). In …

van der Waals metallic transition metal dichalcogenides

GH Han, DL Duong, DH Keum, SJ Yun… - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Transition metal dichalcogenides are layered materials which are composed of transition
metals and chalcogens of the group VIA in a 1: 2 ratio. These layered materials have been …

Strongly enhanced charge-density-wave order in monolayer NbSe2

X Xi, L Zhao, Z Wang, H Berger, L Forró, J Shan… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Two-dimensional materials possess very different properties from their bulk counterparts.
While changes in single-particle electronic properties have been investigated extensively 1 …

Characterization of collective ground states in single-layer NbSe2

MM Ugeda, AJ Bradley, Y Zhang, S Onishi, Y Chen… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Layered transition metal dichalcogenides are ideal systems for exploring the effects of
dimensionality on correlated electronic phases such as charge density wave (CDW) order …