Fermi surface nesting in several transition metal dichalcogenides

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Abstract

By means of high-resolution angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES), we have studied the fermiology of 2H transition metal dichalcogenide polytypes TaSe2, NbSe2 and Cu0.2NbS 2. The tight-binding model of the electronic structure, extracted from ARPES spectra for all three compounds, was used to calculate the Lindhard function (bare spin susceptibility), which reflects the propensity to charge density wave (CDW) instabilities observed in TaSe2 and NbSe 2. We show that though the Fermi surfaces of all three compounds possess an incommensurate nesting vector in the close vicinity of the CDW wave vector, the nesting and ordering wave vectors do not exactly coincide, and there is no direct relationship between the magnitude of the susceptibility at the nesting vector and the CDW transition temperature. The nesting vector persists across the incommensurate CDW transition in TaSe2 as a function of temperature despite the observable variations of the Fermi surface geometry in this temperature range. In Cu0.2NbS2, the nesting vector is present despite different doping levels, which leads us to expect a possible enhancement of the CDW instability with Cu intercalation in the Cu xNbS2 family of materials. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

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Inosov, D. S., Zabolotnyy, V. B., Evtushinsky, D. V., Kordyuk, A. A., Büchner, B., Follath, R., … Borisenko, S. V. (2008). Fermi surface nesting in several transition metal dichalcogenides. New Journal of Physics, 10. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/10/12/125027

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