Title
Electronic Phase Transition of IrTe2 Probed by Second Harmonic Generation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2018
Abstract
© 2018 Chinese Physical Society and IOP Publishing Ltd. We have utilized second harmonic generation (SHG) to disentangle the coupled first-order charge order/structural transition at Tc ∼281K in the transition-metal dichalocogenide IrTe2, an exceptional layered material with 3D properties. The data from SHG shows extremely sharp transition in both the cooling and warming processes with less than 0.2K transition window. Surface electronic symmetries of C3u and S2 are observed in the high temperature and low temperature phases, respectively. Compared to neutron diffraction data for the structural transition (Phys. Rev. B 88 (2013) 115122) and to the electrical resistivity for the microscopic transition (Phys. Rev. B 95 (2017) 035148), our data indicates the electronic transition at the surface is the precursor to the structural transition.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Chinese Physics Letters
Recommended Citation
Taylor, J., Zhang, Z., Cao, G., Haber, L., Jin, R., & Plummer, E. (2018). Electronic Phase Transition of IrTe2 Probed by Second Harmonic Generation. Chinese Physics Letters, 35 (9) https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307X/35/9/097102