Published July 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Metal–insulator transition in 1T-TaS2−xSex

  • 1. Department of Superconductivity, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Advanced Material Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656 (Japan)
  • 3. Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 (Japan)
  • 4. Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503 (Japan)
  • 5. National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya, Hirate-cho, Kita-ku, Nagoya 462-0057 (Japan)

Description

The transition metal dichalcogenide, 1T-TaS2, shows metal–insulator transition (MIT) accompanying the nearly commensurate (NC)–commensurate (C) charge density wave (CDW) phase transition at 180 K. It has been proposed that the low-temperature C-CDW phase is a Mott insulator. However, our specific heat and magnetic susceptibility measurements in the 1T-TaS2−xSex system revealed no indications of effective mass enhancement or intrinsic localized spins in the insulating phase. So we propose a new model for the MIT in which the interlayer coupling of the CDW superstructure plays an important role.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4526(99)02846-X

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DOI
10.1016/S0921-4526(99)02846-X;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/9911039v2;
PII
S092145269902846X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
284-288
Journal Issue
Part 2
Journal Page Range
p. 1673-1674
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

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