Peierls instability

Aim: Discussing experimental evidence of Peierls instabiliy and CDW formation.

• Manuscript to be discussed: Wang et al., ACS nano 2020 (in particular experimental data in Figs. 1, 2, 5)
• Textbooks: Patterson, Solid State Physics; Khomskii, Basic aspects of the quantum theory of solids; and many more!
• Link for further reading: Gruener, Review Mod Phys (download repaired)
• Link for further reading: Review paper on Peierls Instability and Charge Density Waves: Pouget 2016
• Non-expert reading: Physics Today 1996
• On the experiment: Nobel prize 1986: Scanning Tunneling Microscope (for ST-Microscopy and ST-Spectroscopy)
• Textbook on Molecular Beam Epitaxy, online access via HEIDI