The classic rare-earth tritelluride provides an ideal platform to study the strong correlation state owing to its stable structures and abundance of orders.Here we report the observation of an undiscovered charge dens...The classic rare-earth tritelluride provides an ideal platform to study the strong correlation state owing to its stable structures and abundance of orders.Here we report the observation of an undiscovered charge density wave(CDW)in LaTe_(3)under 4.2 K,the transition temperature of the CDW states is fitted to be 35 K,and confirmed by the evanishment of this CDW at 77 K via using temperature-dependent scanning tunneling microscope/spectroscopy.The coexistence of these CDWs is confirmed by the atomic resolution and beating pattern simulation.It is the first time to observe the coexistence of unidirectional charge density waves system,providing a new platform to understand the competition and evolution between strong correlation states,and get a deeper sight into the phase lag between different order parameters.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant Nos.2019YFA0308500,2018YFA0305800)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61925111,52250402)+1 种基金the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDB28000000,YSBR-003)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities。
文摘The classic rare-earth tritelluride provides an ideal platform to study the strong correlation state owing to its stable structures and abundance of orders.Here we report the observation of an undiscovered charge density wave(CDW)in LaTe_(3)under 4.2 K,the transition temperature of the CDW states is fitted to be 35 K,and confirmed by the evanishment of this CDW at 77 K via using temperature-dependent scanning tunneling microscope/spectroscopy.The coexistence of these CDWs is confirmed by the atomic resolution and beating pattern simulation.It is the first time to observe the coexistence of unidirectional charge density waves system,providing a new platform to understand the competition and evolution between strong correlation states,and get a deeper sight into the phase lag between different order parameters.
