Abstract
By systematic theoretical calculations,we reveal an excitonic insulator(EI)in the Ta2Pd3Te5 monolayer.The bulk Ta2Pd3Te5 is a van der Waals(vdW)layered compound,whereas the vdW layer can be obtained through exfoliation or molecular-beam epitaxy.First-principles calculations show that the monolayer is a nearly zero-gap semiconductor with the modified Becke-Johnson functional.Due to the same symmetry of the band-edge states,the two-dimensional polarization α2D would be finite as the band gap goes to zero,allowing for an EI state in the compound.Using the first-principles many-body perturbation theory,the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation calculation reveals that the exciton binding energy is larger than the single-particle band gap,indicating the excitonic instability.The computed phonon spectrum suggests that the monolayer is dynamically stable without lattice distortion.Our findings suggest that the Ta2Pd3Te5 monolayer is an excitonic insulator without structural distortion.
基金项目
National Natural Science Foundation of China(11974395)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(12188101)
Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB33000000)
National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFA1403800)
National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFA1403400)
Center for Materials Genome()
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