Origin of Stripe and Quasi-Stripe CDW Structures in Monolayer MX${}_2$ compounds: Multivalley Free Energy Landscape

Keiji Nakatsugawa, Satoshi Tanda, Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Ultrathin sheets of transition metal dichalcogenides (MX${}_2$) with charge density waves (CDWs) is increasingly gaining interest as a promising candidate for graphene-like devices.…