{"record":{"author":{"account_ref":null,"orcid":null},"builds_on":[],"content_schema":"pubphys.content.revision/1","content_sha256":"1c483401cb42d7ee3088e4abb0ec74165df976ae83a7d45fffb9482aa3a33192","created":"2026-10-15T23:43:22Z","files":[],"origin":{"assisted_by":[],"kind":"seed"},"parents":["14ad99df3ab9fe7fa44b68e2657f681571826b1ab575ea83320d0ccca7b60117","ce59fb6cd812fc05906d0c60a71c75ea22bc686bcf38e7c3ef7010834d98ee7b"],"salt":"c439ec329cfbd607ae4ff5882e716e69e3c08d78a6d4c70e835fd8e6fa3c6a00","schema":"pubphys.record/2","site":"pubphys.com","target":null,"type":"revision"},"content":{"answer_type":"identification","assisted_by":[],"external_id":"cm.excitonic-insulators.tise2-cdw-origin","kind":"phenomenon","literature_status":"contested","n":"2","parents":[],"plain":"$\\mathrm{TiSe_2}$ forms a charge-density wave (a periodic ripple of electron density and atom positions) below about 200 K. One experiment reported a softening electronic mode pointing to exciton condensation, while a 2025 calculation concluded that lattice fluctuations alone open the gap.","posed_since":"","precise":"1T-TiSe2 forms a commensurate $2x2x2$ charge-density wave at $T_{\\mathrm{CDW}} \\sim 200\\,\\mathrm{K}$. Determine whether the transition is driven by an excitonic instability between the Se 4p hole pocket and Ti 3d electron pockets (soft plasmon at the ordering wavevector in momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy, Kogar et al. 2017) or by an electron-phonon (band Jahn-Teller) instability, quantified by the $T_{\\mathrm{CDW}}$ obtained with and without the electron-hole ladder vertex at fixed lattice. An answer is the driving instability with $T_{\\mathrm{CDW}}$ computed in both channels.","problem_ref":"14ad99df3ab9fe7fa44b68e2657f681571826b1ab575ea83320d0ccca7b60117","references":"","settled_by":"An independent momentum-resolved measurement of the electronic collective mode through $T_{\\mathrm{CDW}}$ together with a many-body calculation reproducing $T_{\\mathrm{CDW}}$ from one channel alone.","status_note":"A 2025 quasiparticle self-consistent many-body calculation (Pashov et al., npj Computational Materials) concluded that $\\mathrm{TiSe_2}$ is a band insulator produced by lattice fluctuations, against the 2017 soft-plasmon interpretation.","title":"Is the charge-density wave of 1T-TiSe2 an exciton condensate?","topic_ref":null},"attested":{"attestation":{"batch":null,"client_id":null,"id_token_sha256":null,"kind":"platform"},"record_hash":"a5248447970861692fdf013eef7bd5444ad0a63802d685740745d9dc018375bc","schema":"pubphys.attested/1"},"envelope":{"attested_hash":"0e10ad1717a34018a2868713cd374eac513125910adfba9df0d6bc36e34b2716","platform_signature":{"key_id":"c6afc19b31429869751f06879c75cd64ea92654423d15b44be775bf1310a60da","sig":"GkSGYmv7n4zolZlACLCBEn2lSDSJEWwKJ1Dbb-hKnscTG4hv68Nnj-K_Vp6xbxfc8Wo0srHkDeIj_WsqZf8CCw"},"schema":"pubphys.envelope/1"},"record_hash":"a5248447970861692fdf013eef7bd5444ad0a63802d685740745d9dc018375bc","leaf_index":2782}