THEORY OF DISCOMMENSURATIONS AND COMMENSURATE-INCOMMENSURATE CHARGE-DENSITY WAVE-PHASE TRANSITION
THEORY OF DISCOMMENSURATIONS AND COMMENSURATE-INCOMMENSURATE CHARGE-DENSITY WAVE-PHASE TRANSITION
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.14.1496
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
MCMILLAN, WL
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作者:
MCMILLAN, WL
The lowest-energy state of the incommensurate charge density wave (CDW) near the lock-in transition is found to be a distorted plane wave. An exact solution is found in the weak-coupling limit and the lock-in phase transition is continuous. A new defect is found in the commensurate CDW, a discommensuration, in which the phase of the CDW slips by 2 π 3 relative to the perfectly locked in CDW. The lock-in phase transition is interpreted as a defect melting transition with a finite density of discommensurations in the incommensurate state.