Appearance of a Td* phase across the Td–1T' phase boundary in the Weyl semimetal MoTe2

Tao, Yu; Schneeloch, John A.; Duan, Chunruo; Matsuda, Masaaki; Dissanayake, Sachith E.; Aczel, Adam A.; Fernandez-Baca, Jaime A.; Ye, Feng; Louca, Despina

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.100101

Appearance of a $T_{d}^{*}$ phase across the $T_{d} - 1 T^{'}$ phase boundary in the Weyl semimetal ${MoTe}_{2}$

Journal Article · Mon Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.100101· OSTI ID:1607072

Tao, Yu ^[1]; ^[1]; Duan, Chunruo ^[1]; ^[2]; ^[2]; ^[3]; ^[2]; ^[2]; Louca, Despina ^[1]

Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Using elastic neutron scattering on single crystals of ${MoTe}_{2}$ and ${Mo}_{1 - x} W_{x} {Te}_{2}$ ( $x ≲ 0.01$ ), the temperature dependence of the recently discovered $T_{d}^{*}$ phase, present between the low-temperature orthorhombic $T_{d}$ phase and high-temperature monoclinic $1 T^{'}$ phase, is explored. We report the $T_{d}^{*}$ phase appears only on warming from $T_{d}$ and is observed in the hysteresis region prior to the $1 T^{'}$ transition. This phase consists of four layers in its unit cell, and is constructed by an “AABB” sequence of layer stacking operations rather than the “AB” and “AA” sequences of the $1 T^{'}$ and $T_{d}$ phases, respectively. Though the $T_{d}^{*}$ phase emerges without disorder on warming from $T_{d}$ , on cooling from $1 T^{'}$ diffuse scattering is observed that suggests a frustrated tendency toward the “AABB” stacking.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) and Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; FG02-01ER45927

OSTI ID:: 1607072

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1560767

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1902.06799v4

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 100; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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