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Pressure-Induced Electronic and Structural Phase Evolution in the van der Waals Compound FePS_ 3 .

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Abstract
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Two-dimensional materials have proven to be a prolific breeding ground of new and unstudied forms of magnetism and unusual metallic states, particularly when tuned between their insulating and metallic phases. Here we present work on a new metal-to-insulator transition system FePS_{3}. This compound is a two-dimensional van der Waals antiferromagnetic Mott insulator. We report the discovery of an insulator-metal transition in FePS_{3}, as evidenced by x-ray diffraction and electrical transport measurements, using high pressure as a tuning parameter. Two structural phase transitions are observed in the x-ray diffraction data as a function of pressure, and resistivity measurements show evidence of the onset of a metallic state at high pressures. We propose models for the two new structures that can successfully explain the x-ray diffraction patterns.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Physical review letters
Volume
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121
Issue
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26
Number of Pages
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266801
Date Published
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2018
ISSN Number
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0031-9007
URL
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http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v121/p266801
DOI
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.266801
Short Title
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Phys Rev Lett
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