Orthorhombic-to-monoclinic phase transition of Ta2NiSe5 induced by the Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons

Using the band structure calculation and mean-field analysis of the derived three-chain Hubbard model with phonon degrees of freedom, we discuss the origin of the orthorhombic-to-monoclinic phase transition of the layered chalcogenide Ta2NiSe5. We show that the Bose-Einstein condensation of excitonic electron-hole pairs cooperatively induces the instability of the phonon mode at momentum q -> 0 in the quasi-one-dimensional Ta-NiSe-Ta chain, resulting in the structural phase transition of the system. The calculated single-particle spectra reproduce the deformation of the band structure observed in the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiment. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.035121