Litskevich, Maksim and Hossain, Md Shafayat and Fu, Yang and Miao, Hu and Jiang, Yuxiao and Cheng, Guangming and Chen, Pengcheng and Zhang, Qi and Cheng, Zi-Jia and Acevedo-Esteves, Raul and Nelson, Christie and Wang, Haozhe and Gonzalez Jimenez, Jose L. and Casas, Brian and Liu, Xiaoxiong and Tsirkin, Stepan S. and Dagnino, Kouta and Zhang, Songbo and Hsu, Chia-Hsiu and Shao, Sen and Xu, Shaogang and Cochran, Tyler A. and Yang, Xian P. and Xu, Hu and Yin, Jiaxin and Gerasimenko, Yaroslav A. and Xie, Weiwei and Yao, Nan and Balicas, Luis and Chang, Guoqing and Neupert, Titus and Lei, Hechang and Hasan, M. Zahid (2025) Discovery of a Stripe Phase in an Elemental Solid. NANO LETTERS, 25 (26). pp. 10386-10394. ISSN 1530-6984, 1530-6992
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Abstract
Translational symmetry breaking is foundational to condensed matter physics because it is associated with crystal formation. At much lower energy scales, the breaking of crystalline translational symmetry can be driven by electronic, rather than ionic, degrees of freedom and may give rise to stripe order, a unidirectional ordered state. Such symmetry breaking has been seen in two-dimensional and strongly correlated systems. Here, for the first time, we report the observation of stripe order in an elemental solid, tellurium. Through topographic and spectroscopic imaging, we discover a commensurate 4 x 1 stripe phase. Surprisingly, this exotic order is so robust that it survives close to room temperature. Notably, our diffraction experiments confirm the bulk nature of the stripe order, showing the minuteness of potential lattice distortion associated with the order. Our discovery of the stripe order in tellurium opens new windows to understanding the spontaneous symmetry breaking in elemental solids.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CHARGE-DENSITY-WAVE; TELLURIUM; ORDER; SYMMETRY; LIQUID; HOLES; SPINS; phase transitions; charge order; semiconductors; chiral crystals; scanning tunnelingmicroscopy; X-ray diffraction |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Divisions: | Regensburg Center for UltrafastNanoscopy (RUN) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2026 12:12 |
| Last Modified: | 26 May 2026 12:12 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/67417 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
