title: Classification of charge density waves based on their nature.
abstract: The concept of a charge density wave (CDW) permeates much of condensed matter physics and chemistry. CDWs have their origin rooted in the instability of a one-dimensional system described by Peierls. The extension of this concept to reduced dimensional systems has led to the concept of Fermi surface nesting (FSN), which dictates the wave vector [Formula: see text] of the CDW and the corresponding lattice distortion. The idea is that segments of the Fermi contours are connected by [Formula: see text], resulting in the effective screening of phonons inducing Kohn anomalies in their dispersion at [Formula: see text], driving a lattice restructuring at low temperatures. There is growing theoretical and experimental evidence that this picture fails in many real systems and in fact it is the momentum dependence of the electron-phonon coupling (EPC) matrix element that determines the characteristic of the CDW phase. Based on the published results for the prototypical CDW system 2H-NbSe2, we show how well the [Formula: see text]-dependent EPC matrix element, but not the FSN, can describe the origin of the CDW. We further demonstrate a procedure of combing electronic band and phonon measurements to extract the EPC matrix element, allowing the electronic states involved in the EPC to be identified. Thus, we show that a large EPC does not necessarily induce the CDW phase, with Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ as the example, and the charge-ordered phenomena observed in various cuprates are not driven by FSN or EPC. To experimentally resolve the microscopic picture of EPC will lead to a fundamental change in the way we think about, write about, and classify charge density waves.
authors: Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed-Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; and.
authors: Xuetao
authors: X
authors: Zhu
authors: Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed-Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; and.
authors: Yanwei
authors: Y
authors: Cao
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.
authors: Jiandi
authors: J
authors: Zhang
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 wplummer@phys.lsu.edu jdguo@iphy.ac.cn.
authors: E W
authors: EW
authors: Plummer
authors: Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed-Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; and wplummer@phys.lsu.edu jdguo@iphy.ac.cn.
authors: Jiandong
authors: J
authors: Guo
keywords: charge density wave; nesting; phonon
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