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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 107, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.184109
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This study reveals that the hysteresis observed in the resistivity across the NCDW-to-CCDW transition is coupled to a local structure anomaly, disrupting the trigonal symmetry of the star of David structures, without breaking the lattice periodicity.
The quasi-two-dimensional 1T-TaS2 displays a unique two-step charge density wave (CDW) transition, from incommensurate (ICDW) to nearly commensurate (NCDW), and from NCDW to commensurate (CCDW), which is reflected in the stepwise resistivity behavior. In this work, we show that the hysteresis observed in the resistivity across the NCDW-to-CCDW transition is coupled to a local structure anomaly, evident from the pair density function analysis of neutron and x-ray diffraction data. We find that upon cycling the system from high to low temperatures (through the NCDW-CCDW transition) and collecting data on warming, local distortions in the in-star Ta and out-of-plane S atoms become evident, disrupting the trigonal symmetry of the star of David structures, without breaking the lattice periodicity, and preserving the underlying P3 symmetry. When the system is warmed up from the NCDW to the ICDW state, the local distortions are absent and the stars are symmetric, indicating that it is the thermal cycling through the NCDW-CCDW that locks in the distortions. Furthermore, we verify the temperature dependence of the two types of stacking along the c axis: at low temperatures, the layer stacking exhibits a 13co order that disappears upon warming through the NCDW transition, while across the NCDW and ICDW phases, the layer stacking is 3co. The 3co order gradually disappears in the ICDW state.
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