Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 783-791Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c08304
Keywords
two-dimensional materials; transition metal dichalcogenides; monolayer; VSe2; charge density waves; scanning tunneling microscopy; band structure
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- Ministry of Education [MOE2017-T2-2-139]
- NRF-NSFC [R-144-000-405-281]
- A*STAR Singapore under the SpOT-LITE programme [A18A6b0057]
- Department of Science, Government of India [R(RO)/DST/NSM/HPC_Applications/2021-1464]
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Thinning crystalline materials to two dimensions leads to a variety of electronic phases, but the confinement of charge order to only 2D remains challenging. By studying monolayer VSe2, two CDWs with distinct origins were discovered, highlighting the importance of emergent interactions in 2D materials.
Thinning crystalline materials to two dimensions (2D) creates a rich playground for electronic phases, including charge, spin, superconducting, and topological order. Bulk materials hosting charge density waves (CDWs), when reduced to ultrathin films, have shown CDW enhancement and tunability. However, charge order confined to only 2D remains elusive. Here we report a distinct charge ordered state emerging in the monolayer limit of 1T-VSe2. Systematic scanning tunneling microscopy experiments reveal that bilayer VSe2 largely retains the bulk electronic structure, hosting a tridirectional CDW. However, monolayer VSe2 -consistently across distinct substrates-exhibits a dimensional crossover, hosting two CDWs with distinct wavelengths and transition temperatures. Electronic structure calculations reveal that while one CDW is bulk-like and arises from the well-known Peierls mechanism, the other is decidedly unconventional. The observed CDW-lattice decoupling and the emergence of a flat band suggest that the second CDW could arise from enhanced electronelectron interactions in the 2D limit. These findings establish monolayer-VSe2 as a host of coexisting charge orders with distinct origins, and enable the tailoring of electronic phenomena via emergent interactions in 2D materials.
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