- Author
-
A. Kogar
M.S. Rak
S. Vig
A.A. Husain
F. Flicker
Y.I. Joe
L. Venema
G.J. MacDougall
T.C. Chiang
E. Fradkin
J. van Wezel
P. Abbamonte - Year
- 2017
- Title
- Signatures of exciton condensation in a transition metal dichalcogenide
- Journal
- Science
- Volume | Issue number
- 358 | 6368
- Pages (from-to)
- 1314-1317
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science (FNWI)
- Institute
- Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
- Abstract
-
Bose condensation has shaped our understanding of macroscopic quantum phenomena, having been realized in superconductors, atomic gases, and liquid helium. Excitons are bosons that have been predicted to condense into either a superfluid or an insulating electronic crystal. Using the recently developed technique of momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy (M-EELS), we studied electronic collective modes in the transition metal dichalcogenide semimetal 1T-TiSe2. Near the phase-transition temperature (190 kelvin), the energy of the electronic mode fell to zero at nonzero momentum, indicating dynamical slowing of plasma fluctuations and crystallization of the valence electrons into an exciton condensate. Our study provides compelling evidence for exciton condensation in a three-dimensional solid and establishes M-EELS as a versatile technique sensitive to valence band excitations in quantum materials.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Other links
- Link to publication in Scopus
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/1a95c86e-9f18-4aef-a187-3b0c7dcd08c0
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