Quantum phase transition from triangular to stripe charge order in NbSe2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1623-1627

  Soumyanarayanan, Anjan ^a,b   Yee, Michael M ^a   He, Yang ^a   Wezel, Jasper Van ^c,d   Rahn, Dirk J ^e   Rossnagel, Kai ^e   Hudson, E W ^f   Norman, Michael R ^c   Hoffman, Jennifer E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing order; Scanning tunneling spectroscopy; Transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; NESTING; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NIOBIUM; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM THEORY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84873174862     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211387110     Document Type: Article

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