Pressure-Induced Electronic and Structural Phase Evolution in the van der Waals Compound FePS_ 3 .
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| Abstract | :  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 | :  2018 | 
| Journal | :  Physical review letters | 
| Volume | :  121 | 
| Issue | :  26 | 
| Number of Pages | :  266801 | 
| Date Published | :  2018 | 
| ISSN Number | :  0031-9007 | 
| URL | :  http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v121/p266801 | 
| DOI | :  10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.266801 | 
| Short Title | :  Phys Rev Lett | 
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