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Effect of disorder on the strain-tuned charge density wave multicriticality in Pd$_x$ErTe$_3$

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Pith's one-line read In Pd-intercalated ErTe3, quenched disorder preserves the strain-tuned first-order reorientation of the charge density wave but shifts its endpoint to lower temperature and strain, producing a more symmetric, 'pseudo-tetragonal'…

desk verdict A careful, honest experimental study with real XRD substance, but the headline claim about disorder-enhanced pseudo-tetragonality rests on transport data the paper itself admits could be distorted by strain inhomogeneity and incomplete detwinning. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.20706 v1 pith:YPVMCN5V submitted 2024-12-30 cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Anisha G. Singh , Matthew Krogstad , Maja D. Bachmann , Paul Thompson , Stephan Rosenkranz , Ray Osborn , Alan Fang , Aharon Kapitulnik
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Jong Woo Kim Philip J. Ryan Steven A. Kivelson Ian R. Fisher
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The reading

This paper asks what quenched disorder does to a strain-tuned multicritical point, using palladium intercalation to add controlled disorder to the charge-density-wave (CDW) material ErTe3. It finds that the line of first-order transitions at which the CDW reorients from the c-axis to the a-axis under strain survives disorder, but its endpoint moves to lower temperature and lower strain. Around that endpoint the electronic response becomes markedly more symmetric: the nematic elastoresistance, the sensitivity of the in-plane resistivity anisotropy to anisotropic strain, is suppressed, broadened, and more symmetric about the critical strain, and the resistivity anisotropy below the transition is smaller. The authors conclude that disorder reduces the electronic orthorhombicity, pushing the material toward a 'pseudo-tetragonal' electronic response even though the crystal structure remains orthorhombic. If right, this reframes how disorder is understood near CDW multicritical points: rather than destroying the reorientation physics, it softens and symmetrizes it.

What carries the argument

The central object is the strain-tuned CDW reorientation line and its endpoint: a first-order line of transitions between c-axis and a-axis CDW states whose termination under strain defines the multicritical point. The paper tracks this line through x-ray diffraction of the mixed-phase region, where the sample forms domains of both CDW states, and through transverse transport measurements of the resistive anisotropy (ρa − ρc)/2. The load-bearing response function is the nematic elastoresistance η = (1/(ρa+ρc)) ∂(ρa−ρc)/∂(εxx−εzz), which measures how sensitively the electronic anisotropy responds to anisotropic strain; its peak marks the critical strain, and its temperature and strain asymmetry quantify the emergent tetragonality.

What would settle it

Measure the elastoresistance and resistive anisotropy of a fully detwinned, monodomain PdxErTe3 sample while verifying its strain state directly by x-ray diffraction, as the paper does for its 1% sample. If a uniformly strained single-domain sample shows a sharp, asymmetric elastoresistance comparable to pristine ErTe3, the disorder-driven reduction of electronic orthorhombicity would be falsified; if the symmetric response persists in a verified monodomain, the claim is confirmed.

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Core claim

In pristine ErTe3, an applied uniaxial strain rotates the CDW wavevector from the c-axis to the a-axis through a first-order transition line ending in a bicritical point, where signatures of an emergent tetragonal symmetry appear. This paper shows that in PdxErTe3 with x = 0.01, 0.02, and 0.026, the same reorientation line persists as a first-order transition with a mixed-domain region of similar width, and still terminates in a critical point. However, the critical strain falls from roughly 0.17% in the pristine compound to roughly 0.11% in the 1% intercalated sample, the characteristic CDW temperature is suppressed, and the elastoresistance peak near the critical point is smaller, broader, and more symmetric about the critical strain. The authors argue that these observations indicate that disorder reduces the electronic orthorhombicity, so the nearly four-fold-symmetric electronic susceptibility manifests as a more isotropic transport response, reinforcing 'pseudo-tetragonal' electronic behavior within an irrevocably orthorhombic lattice.

Load-bearing premise

The interpretation assumes that the strain measured from the titanium platform (with its Poisson ratio and epoxy losses) equals the uniform strain actually experienced by the sample; if strain inhomogeneity or incomplete detwinning inflates the apparent symmetry of the elastoresistance in the intercalated sample, the conclusion that disorder reduces electronic orthorhombicity weakens.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The first-order strain-driven reorientation of the CDW is robust to quenched disorder at the intercalation levels studied (x ≤ 0.026), so disorder shifts rather than destroys the multicriticality.
  • The critical strain falls from about 0.17% in pristine ErTe3 to about 0.11% in the 1% intercalated sample, meaning weaker applied stress reaches the reorientation endpoint in the disordered material.
  • The similar width of the mixed-phase region and similar CDW-induced spontaneous strain in pristine and intercalated samples indicate that disorder softens the electronic anisotropy without changing the structural footprint of the CDW states.
  • The suppressed, broadened elastoresistance divergence near the critical point matches sub-Curie behavior of the random-field Ising model seen in Fe-based superconductors, placing this system in a known disorder-universality class.
  • The more symmetric elastoresistance and resistive anisotropy around the critical point imply that the emergent tetragonality of ErTe3 does not require a clean symmetry-breaking transition and can be enhanced by the averaging effect of impurity scattering.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If disorder reduces electronic orthorhombicity through scattering-induced averaging over a near-tetragonal susceptibility, then the elastoresistance of other lightly doped RTe3 compounds, or of ErTe3 with electron irradiation, should show the same progressive symmetrization; this is a testable prediction the paper does not make.
  • The distinction between a bicritical point and a critical endpoint in the disordered samples could be sharpened by specific-heat or thermal-expansion measurements across the reorientation line, since the paper notes transport alone cannot distinguish these cases.
  • A natural extension is to map the endpoint's evolution for intercalation beyond x = 0.026 to see whether the first-order line eventually disappears at a critical disorder concentration, which would connect this phenomenology to vestigial-order or Bragg-glass scenarios.
  • The more symmetric response near the critical point suggests that probes sensitive to the symmetry of short-range CDW fluctuations above the characteristic temperature, such as polarized diffuse scattering, should reveal an increasingly four-fold-symmetric fluctuation pattern as disorder increases.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper reports a combined x-ray diffraction and elastoresistivity study of the disorder effects induced by Pd intercalation on the strain-tuned CDW reorientation in ErTe3. The authors find that in Pd0.01ErTe3 the first-order CDW reorientation line persists, the mixed-phase width remains similar to the parent compound, and the critical strain is reduced. Transport measurements reveal a more symmetric T_CDW versus strain curve, a suppressed and broadened resistive anisotropy, and a broader but more symmetric elastoresistance peak near the critical point. These observations are interpreted as evidence that disorder reduces the electronic orthorhombicity and reinforces a pseudo-tetragonal electronic response, even though the crystal remains orthorhombic.

Significance. If correct, the central claim would provide a striking experimental example of disorder promoting emergent symmetry in a fundamentally orthorhombic material, connecting to the authors' earlier theoretical proposal of an emergent Z_2 symmetry near the CDW multicritical point. The paper's strengths include the use of direct in-situ XRD under strain, which provides an external structural benchmark and convincingly establishes the persistence of the first-order reorientation and the reduction of the critical strain in the intercalated sample. The paper is also candid about the ambiguity between a crossover and a transition, and between a bicritical point and a critical endpoint. The transport-derived symmetry claims, however, rest on strain values inferred from the titanium platform rather than measured on the sample, and the paper's own caveats about strain inhomogeneity and incomplete detwinning directly affect the interpretation of the central result.

major comments (2)
  1. [§III C, Figs. 8C and 9] The central claim that disorder reduces electronic orthorhombicity is based on the transport observables T_CDW(ε), (ρa−ρc)/2, and η(ε,T), all of which are computed using strain inferred from the titanium platform displacement rather than measured on the sample. The paper itself attributes the absence of a sharp V-shaped minimum in T_CDW(ε) to strain inhomogeneity averaged over in the transport measurements (near Fig. 8C), and the Fig. 9 caption concedes that the resistive anisotropy does not saturate at the largest applied strains. Strain inhomogeneity of the magnitude required to round the phase boundary would also broaden and symmetrize the elastoresistance peak and suppress the saturated anisotropy, so the observed "more symmetric" response could be an artifact of the measurement rather than a consequence of disorder. The authors should provide a quantitative estimate of the strain inhomogeneity, for example by comparing the platform-derived strain with the sample lattice strain measured by XRD on the same device, or by modeling the expected effect of inhomogeneity on η(ε) and showing it cannot reproduce the observations.
  2. [§III C, Fig. 9] The non-saturating resistive anisotropy for the intercalated sample means that the monodomain anisotropy value is not established; the two interpretations given in the figure caption (incomplete detwinning versus large monodomain elastoresistance) have opposite implications for the claim of reduced electronic orthorhombicity. If incomplete detwinning is the cause, the measured (ρa−ρc)/2 is a domain-weighted average that is artificially small and artificially symmetric around the critical strain, which would mimic the exact trend the paper attributes to disorder. The distinction needs to be resolved, for example by measuring the domain population by XRD under identical strain conditions, before the symmetry-based conclusion can be considered secure.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§III A, Fig. 3 caption] The terms "pristine" and "parent" are used interchangeably; please choose one for consistency.
  2. [§III B, Fig. 6B] The horizontal axis label "H (expressed here as the lattice parameter)" is confusing; clarify the conversion between reciprocal lattice units and lattice parameter, and add units.
  3. [§III C, Eq. (1)] The definition of the elastoresistance η uses ∂(ρa−ρc)/∂(εxx−εzz) but the text later refers to the strain as (ΔLx/Lx − ΔLz/Lz); please state explicitly whether εxx−εzz is the antisymmetric strain in the notation of the earlier sections.
  4. [References] Reference [3] is an unpublished arXiv preprint; please update it or add a note about its publication status.
  5. [§III C, Fig. 8C] In the text, T_CDW is sometimes written as T CDW and sometimes as TCDW; please standardize the notation.

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No significant circularity: the transport and XRD observables are measured directly and compared with pristine ErTe3, and the prior-work citations are interpretive context rather than load-bearing inputs.

full rationale

No circularity is found. The paper's load-bearing observations are direct measurements: XRD determines lattice parameters, superlattice intensities, and mixed-phase widths; transport determines T_CDW from resistivity derivatives, the resistive anisotropy, and the elastoresistance. The disordered sample's behavior is compared with pristine ErTe3, either measured in the present study or taken from the authors' prior diffraction/transport work [3]; in either case this is a direct experimental benchmark, not a quantity fitted to the conclusion. The critical strain is extracted from the minimum of T_CDW(epsilon) and independently from the maximum of eta(epsilon), and the paper explicitly notes that the eta peak's existence does not depend on the T_CDW definition. The citations to the authors' emergent-Z2-symmetry theory [4] and to the prior tetragonality study [3] provide interpretive language, but the inference that disorder lowers the critical strain and broadens and symmetrizes the response rests on the measured curves. The strain-inhomogeneity and detwinning caveats in Section III C and the Fig. 9 caption are acknowledged measurement limitations, not circular reductions: they do not define the target result into existence. Hence no equation-level reduction or fitted-input-renamed-as-prediction is present.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no fitting parameters or new entities. Its central conclusions rest on prior characterizations of Pd intercalation as disorder and on the strain-transfer assumption for transport; both are domain assumptions rather than derived facts.

assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption Pd intercalation acts as isoelectronic quenched disorder without adding charge carriers
    Basis for interpreting the effect of Pd as disorder; the paper cites refs [8,9] for this, and uses transport-derived T_CDW to calibrate x.
  • standard math Incommensurate CDW order is destroyed by arbitrarily weak disorder, so the observed features are crossovers or transitions to a Bragg glass/vestigial phase
    Invoked in the Introduction and Discussion via Larkin [11] and Imry-Ma [12]; used to frame the interpretation of T_CDW in disordered samples.
  • domain assumption The strain measured on the titanium platform is equal to the sample strain for transport measurements
    Used throughout Section III C to convert platform displacement into the strain axis for elastoresistivity data; acknowledged as an approximation.

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abstract

We explore, through a combination of x-ray diffraction and elastoresistivity measurements, the effect of disorder on the strain-tuned charge density wave and associated multicriticality in Pd$_x$ErTe$_3$ (x = 0, 0.01, 0.02 and 0.026). We focus particularly on the behavior near the strain-tuned bicritical point that occurs in pristine ErTe$_3$ (x=0). Our study reveals that while Pd intercalation somewhat broadens the signatures of the CDW phase transitions, the line of first-order transitions at which the CDW reorients as a function of applied strain persists in the presence of disorder and still seemingly terminates at a critical point. The critical point occurs at a lower temperature and a lower strain compared to pristine ErTe$_3$. Similarly, the nematic elastoresistance of Pd$_x$ErTe$_3$, though suppressed in magnitude and broadened relative to that of ErTe$_3$, has a markedly more symmetric response around the critical point. These observations point to disorder driving a reduction in the system's electronic orthorhombicity even while the material remains irrevocably orthorhombic due to the presence of a glide plane in the crystal structure. Disorder, it would appear, reinforces the emergence of a "pseudo-tetragonal" electronic response in this fundamentally orthorhombic material.

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