A metallic mosaic phase and the origin of Mott-insulating state in 1T-TaS2

In correlated materials, new phases emerge when the balance between many-body interactions is perturbed. Here, Ma et al. induce a mosaic charge-density-wave phase out of Mott insulating state in layered 1T-TaS2by voltage pulses, which reveals a dominating role of interlayer stacking order.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liguo Ma, Cun Ye, Yijun Yu, Xiu Fang Lu, Xiaohai Niu, Sejoong Kim, Donglai Feng, David Tománek, Young-Woo Son, Xian Hui Chen, Yuanbo Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10956