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  Common microscopic origin of the phase transitions in Ta2NiS5 and the excitonic insulator candidate Ta2NiSe5

Windgätter, L., Rösner, M., Mazza, G., Hübener, H., Georges, A., Millis, A. J., et al. (2021). Common microscopic origin of the phase transitions in Ta2NiS5 and the excitonic insulator candidate Ta2NiSe5. npj Computational Materials, 7(1): 210. doi:10.1038/s41524-021-00675-6.

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Windgätter, L.1, Author           
Rösner, M.2, Author
Mazza, G.3, Author
Hübener, H.1, Author           
Georges, A.3, 4, 5, 6, Author
Millis, A. J.6, 7, Author
Latini, S.1, Author           
Rubio, A.1, 5, 8, Author           
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1Theory Group, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society, ou_2266715              
2Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials, ou_persistent22              
3Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, ou_persistent22              
4Collège de France, ou_persistent22              
5Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute, ou_persistent22              
6CPHT, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, ou_persistent22              
7Department of Physics, Columbia University, ou_persistent22              
8Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group, Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad del País Vasco, ou_persistent22              

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 Abstract: The structural phase transition in Ta<sub>2</sub>NiSe<sub>5</sub> has been envisioned as driven by the formation of an excitonic insulating phase. However, the role of structural and electronic instabilities on crystal symmetry breaking has yet to be disentangled. Meanwhile, the phase transition in its complementary material Ta<sub>2<sub>NiS<sub>5</sub> does not show any experimental hints of an excitonic insulating phase. We present a microscopic investigation of the electronic and phononic effects involved in the structural phase transition in Ta2NiSe5 and Ta<sub>2<sub>NiS<sub>5</sub> using extensive first-principles calculations. In both materials the crystal symmetries are broken by phonon instabilities, which in turn lead to changes in the electronic bandstructure also observed in the experiment. A total energy landscape analysis shows no tendency towards a purely electronic instability and we find that a sizeable lattice distortion is needed to open a bandgap. We conclude that an excitonic instability is not needed to explain the phase transition in both Ta<sub>2</sub>NiSe<sub>5</sub> and Ta<sub>2<sub>NiS<sub>5</sub>.

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 Dates: 2021-06-162021-11-192021-12-20
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 Identifiers: arXiv: 2105.13924
DOI: 10.1038/s41524-021-00675-6
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Project name : We are grateful to E. Baldini, I. Mazin and Yann Gallais for enlightening discussions throughout the course of this work. We would like to thank M. Ye, G. Blumberg, K. Kim, B.J. Kim, M.J. Kim and S. Kaiser for sharing the experimental data of their Raman measurements and valuable discussions. This work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC-2015-AdG-694097), Grupos Consolidados (IT1249-19) and the Flatiron Institute, a division of the Simons Foundation. We acknowledge funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy - Cluster of Excellence Advanced Imaging of Matter (AIM) EXC 2056 - 390715994 and by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - SFB-925 - project 170620586. Support by the Max Planck Institute - New York City Center for Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena is acknowledged. S.L. acknowledges support from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. G.M. acknowledges support of the Swiss National Science Foundation FNS/SNF through an Ambizione grant.
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Title: npj Computational Materials
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 7 (1) Sequence Number: 210 Start / End Page: - Identifier: ISSN: 2057-3960
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/2057-3960