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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 6: Focus Session: Tunable Correlations in van der Waals Quantum Materials I (joint session TT/DS/HL)

HL 6.2: Topical Talk

Monday, March 9, 2026, 15:30–16:00, HSZ/0003

Tuning Coulomb interactions and Hubbard bands in 1T-TaS₂ — •Anna Galler — Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics, TU Graz, Austria — Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany

Monolayer 1T-TaS₂ hosts a star-of-David charge-density wave (CDW) that stabilizes a low-temperature Mott-insulating state. Recent time-resolved spectroscopies indicate a coupling between the CDW amplitude mode and the electronic correlation strength, yet the role of the screened Coulomb interaction remains unclear. Using the constrained random-phase approximation, we show that the CDW amplitude modifies the bare and screened on-site interactions, leading to sizable variations in the effective Hubbard U. Our combined density-functional and dynamical mean-field theory calculations reveal that the Hubbard bands shift in concert with the CDW amplitude, and that a reduced distortion drives a transition from a Mott insulator to a correlated metal. These results demonstrate a direct link between lattice distortions and Coulomb interactions in transition-metal dichalcogenides, providing a microscopic mechanism for light-induced control of correlated phases in two-dimensional quantum materials.

Keywords: transition-metal dichalcogenides; many-body theory; electronic correlations; light-matter interactions