Coexistence of gapless excitations and commensurate charge-density wave in the 2H-transition metal dichalcogenides

Details Coexistence of gapless excitations and commensurate charge-density wave in the 2H-transition metal dichalcogenides Coexistence of gapless excitations and commensurate charge-density wave in the 2H-transition metal dichalcogenides

2005-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508590v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026406 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.026406

An unexpected feature common to 2H-transition metal dichalcogenides (2H-TMDs) is revealed with first-principles Wannier functions analysis of the electronic structure of the prototype 2H-TaSe2: The low-energy Ta \red{``$5d_{z^2}$''} bands governing the physics of charge-density wave (CDW) is dominated by hopping between next-nearest neighbors. With this motivation we develop a minimal effective model for the CDW formation, in which the unusual form of the hopping leads to an approximate decoupling of the three sublattices. In the CDW phase one sublattice remains undistorted, leaving the bands associated with it ungapped everywhere in the Fermi surface, resolving the long-standing puzzle of coexistence of gapless excitations and commensurate CDW in the 2H-TMDs.

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