PhD Thesis Defense - COLLECTIVE ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC STATES IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES

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Speaker

Paul Dreher, Centro de Fisica de Materiales

When

2022/03/25
12:00

Place

Auditorium, Centro de Fisica de Materiales

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Single-layer (SL) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials possess a variety of collective electronic phases such as superconductivity (SC), charge density wave (CDW) order, and magnetic correlations, which exhibit fascinating properties in the confined space of two dimensions. In these layered materials electron-electron interactions are enhanced, which can trigger novel physical phenomena. In particular, the most fundamental properties and intrinsic parameters such as the critical temperatures (Tc) of these phases are strongly modified in most cases when reducing the dimension. Furthermore, the interplay of the electronic phases becomes crucial. Important questions on the pairing symmetry in 2D-TMD superconductors and the stability of these phases to external perturbations such as magnetic fields and doping atoms remain elusive. This thesis presents an atomic-scale study of the collective electronic states present in selected novel TMD materials in the ultimate single-layer limit. Molecular beam epitaxy is deployed to grow highly crystalline single-layer materials and more complex TMD heterostructures. By means of low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS) under ultra-high vacuum conditions and high magnetic fields, we are able to study the electronic structure in depth and, therefore, the phase diagrams of these 2D materials. This thesis also benefits from other experimental techniques (AFM, ARPES, XMCD, XPS, SQUID, RHEED, LEED) and calculations that provide complementary information to better understand the phenomenology of the physical systems under study. Supervisor: Miguel Moreno Ugeda