Possible phason-polaron effect on purely one dimensional charge order of Mo6Se6 nanowires

Abstract

In one-dimensional (1D) metallic systems, the diverging electron susceptibility and electron-phonon coupling collaboratively drive the electrons into a charge density wave (CDW) state. However, strictly 1D system is unstable against perturbations, whose effect on CDW order requires clarification ideally with altered coupling to surroundings. Here, we fabricate such a system with nanowires of Mo6Se6 bundles, which are either attached to edges of monolayer MoSe2 or isolated freely, by post-annealing the preformed MoSe2. Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we visualized charge modulations and CDW gaps with prominent coherent peaks in the edge-attached nanowires. Astonishingly, the CDW order becomes suppressed in the isolated nanowires, showing CDW correlation gaps without coherent peaks. The contrasting behavior, as revealed with theoretical modeling, is interpreted as the effect of phason-polarons on the 1D CDW state. Our work elucidates a possibly unprecedented many body effect that may be generic to strictly 1D system but undermined in quasi-1D system.

arXiv comment21 pages, 4 figures

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