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Unveiling the Semimetallic Nature of 1$T$-TiSe$_2$ by Doping its Charge Density Wave

Jaouen, Thomas ; Rumo, Maxime ; Hildebrand, Baptiste ; Mottas, Marie-Laure ; Nicholson, Christopher W. ; Kremer, Geoffroy ; Salzmann, Björn ; Vanini, Fabiano ; Barreteau, C. ; Giannini, E. ; Beck, Hans-Peter ; Aebi, Philipp ; Monney, Claude

The semimetallic or semiconducting nature of the transition metal dichalcogenide 1$T$-TiSe$_2$ remains under debate after many decades mainly due to the fluctuating nature of its 2 x 2 x 2 charge-density-wave (CDW) phase at room- temperature. In this letter, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we unambiguously demonstrate that the 1$T$-TiSe$_2$ normal state is semimetallic with ...

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Phase separation in the vicinity of Fermi surface hot spots

Jaouen, Thomas ; Hildebrand, Baptiste ; Mottas, Marie-Laure ; Giovannantonio, M. Di ; Ruffieux, Pascal ; Rumo, Maxime ; Nicholson, Christopher W. ; Razzoli, E. ; Barreteau, C. ; Ubaldini, A. ; Giannini, E. ; Vanini, Fabiano ; Beck, Hans ; Monney, Claude ; Aebi, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2019, vol. 100, no. 7, p. 075152

Spatially inhomogeneous electronic states are expected to be key ingredients for the emergence of superconducting phases in quantum materials hosting charge-density waves (CDWs). Prototypical materials are transitionmetal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and among them, 1T-TiSe2 exhibiting intertwined CDW and superconducting states under Cu intercalation, pressure, or electrical gating. Although it...

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Local real-space view of the achiral $1T\text{\ensuremath{-}}{\mathrm{TiSe}}_{2}$ $2\times2\times2$ charge density wave

Hildebrand, Baptiste ; Jaouen, Thomas ; Mottas, Marie-Laure ; Monney, Gaël ; Barreteau, C. ; Giannini, E. ; Bowler, D. R. ; Aebi, Philipp

In: Physical Review Letters, 2018, vol. 120, no. 13, p. 136404

The transition metal dichalcogenide 1T−TiSe2-two-dimensional layered material undergoing a commensurate 2×2×2 charge density wave (CDW) transition with a weak periodic lattice distortion (PLD) below ≈200 K. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) combined with intentionally introduced interstitial Ti atoms allows us to go beyond the usual spatial resolution of STM and to intimately probe...

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Local resilience of the $1T\text{\ensuremath{-}}{\mathrm{TiSe}}_{2}$ charge density wave to Ti self-doping

Hildebrand, Baptiste ; Jaouen, Thomas ; Didiot, Clément ; Razzoli, Elia ; Monney, Gaël ; Mottas, Marie-Laure ; Vanini, Fabiano ; Barreteau, C. ; Ubaldini, A. ; Giannini, E. ; Berger, Helmuth ; Bowler, D. R. ; Aebi, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2017, vol. 95, no. 8, p. 081104

In Ti-intercalated self-doped 1T−TiSe2 crystals, the charge density wave (CDW) superstructure induces two nonequivalent sites for Ti dopants. Recently, it has been shown that increasing Ti doping dramatically influences the CDW by breaking it into phase-shifted domains. Here, we report scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy experiments that reveal a dopant-site dependence of the CDW...

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Short-range phase coherence and origin of the $1T-{\mathrm{TiSe}}_{2}$ charge density wave

Hildebrand, Baptiste ; Jaouen, Thomas ; Didiot, Clément ; Razzoli, Elia ; Monney, Gaël ; Mottas, Marie-Laure ; Ubaldini, A. ; Berger, Helmuth ; Barreteau, C. ; Beck, Hans ; Bowler, D. R. ; Aebi, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2016, vol. 93, no. 12, p. 125140

The impact of variable Ti self-doping on the 1T−TiSe2 charge density wave (CDW) is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy. Supported by density functional theory, we show that agglomeration of intercalated-Ti atoms acts as preferential nucleation centers for the CDW that breaks up in phase-shifted CDW domains whose size directly depends on the intercalated-Ti concentration and which are...