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Emergent surface resonance from charge density wave symmetry breaking in TiSe2

Year : 2026

Publisher : American Physical Society

Source Title : Physical Review B

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Abstract

Surface confined electronic states provide a fertile ground for discovering emergent phenomena that have no counterpart in the bulk, offering new routes to manipulate correlations, symmetry breaking, and dimensionality at the atomic scale. Here, we show that charge density wave (CDW) symmetry breaking can yield surface states in 1T-TiSe2. Micro–angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (μ-ARPES) resolves a sharp, two-dimensional surface resonant state (SRS) that emerges within the CDWreconstructed low energy spectrum. The SRS exhibits notable temperature dependence and its spectral weight collapses around ∼160 K, while CDW transition temperature TCDW is commonly reported as ≈202 K. Slab DFT +U calculations reproduce a surface localized resonance when CDW folding brings valence and conduction states into near degeneracy, suggesting a correlation tuned, surface selective origin. These results point to a form of correlation-tuned surface resonance in a layered CDW compound and suggest a framework for engineering low-dimensional quantum states in van der Waals materials via symmetry breaking and electronic structure tuning.