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| author | Yao, Jingyu Sheng, Haohao Zhang, Ruihan Pang, Rongtian Zhou, Jin-Jian Wu, Quansheng Weng, Hongming Dai, Xi Fang, Zhong Wang, Zhijun |
| author_facet | Yao, Jingyu Sheng, Haohao Zhang, Ruihan Pang, Rongtian Zhou, Jin-Jian Wu, Quansheng Weng, Hongming Dai, Xi Fang, Zhong Wang, Zhijun |
| contents | By systematic theoretical calculations, we have revealed an excitonic insulator (EI) in the Ta2Pd3Te5 monolayer. The bulk Ta2Pd3Te5 is a van der Waals (vdW) layered compound, whereas the vdW layer can be obtained through exfoliation or molecular-beam epitaxy. First-principles calculations show that the monolayer is a nearly zero-gap semiconductor with the modified Becke-Johnson functional. Due to the same symmetry of the band-edge states, the two-dimensional polarization $α_{2D}$ would be finite as the band gap goes to zero, allowing for an EI state in the compound. Using the first-principles many-body perturbation theory, the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation calculation reveals that the exciton binding energy is larger than the single-particle band gap, indicating the excitonic instability. The computed phonon spectrum suggests that the monolayer is dynamically stable without lattice distortion. Our findings suggest that the Ta2Pd3Te5 monolayer is an excitonic insulator without structural distortion. |
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| spellingShingle | Excitonic Instability in Ta2Pd3Te5 Monolayer Yao, Jingyu Sheng, Haohao Zhang, Ruihan Pang, Rongtian Zhou, Jin-Jian Wu, Quansheng Weng, Hongming Dai, Xi Fang, Zhong Wang, Zhijun Materials Science Computational Physics By systematic theoretical calculations, we have revealed an excitonic insulator (EI) in the Ta2Pd3Te5 monolayer. The bulk Ta2Pd3Te5 is a van der Waals (vdW) layered compound, whereas the vdW layer can be obtained through exfoliation or molecular-beam epitaxy. First-principles calculations show that the monolayer is a nearly zero-gap semiconductor with the modified Becke-Johnson functional. Due to the same symmetry of the band-edge states, the two-dimensional polarization $α_{2D}$ would be finite as the band gap goes to zero, allowing for an EI state in the compound. Using the first-principles many-body perturbation theory, the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation calculation reveals that the exciton binding energy is larger than the single-particle band gap, indicating the excitonic instability. The computed phonon spectrum suggests that the monolayer is dynamically stable without lattice distortion. Our findings suggest that the Ta2Pd3Te5 monolayer is an excitonic insulator without structural distortion. |
| title | Excitonic Instability in Ta2Pd3Te5 Monolayer |
| topic | Materials Science Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01222 |