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arxiv: 2510.01465 · v3 · submitted 2025-10-01 · ❄️ cond-mat.mtrl-sci · cond-mat.str-el

Stabilization of sliding ferroelectricity through exciton condensation

Matteo D'Alessio , Daniele Varsano , Elisa Molinari , Massimo Rontani This is my paper

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keywords sliding ferroelectricityexciton condensationWTe2 bilayertwo-dimensional materialsvan der Waals interactionsferroelectric polarizationelectron-hole interactionsband renormalization
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Exciton condensation stabilizes sliding ferroelectricity in WTe2 bilayers by renormalizing bands and lowering sliding energy.

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The paper focuses on sliding ferroelectricity in the WTe2 bilayer, a prototype 2D van der Waals system where relative layer sliding breaks symmetry and produces spontaneous polarization perpendicular to the layers. It shows that electron-hole interactions cause energy band renormalizations in the ground state, with exciton condensation providing a significant additional energy gain that stabilizes the ferroelectric state upon sliding. This effect was not captured in prior calculations that omitted excitonic contributions. A sympathetic reader cares because the low energy cost of sliding in weakly bound layers, now enhanced by excitons, suggests ferroelectricity can be more robust and tunable than expected in many 2D materials. The work indicates that an external electric field could control quantum phases through this coupling in unexplored ways.

Core claim

Excitonic effects induce relevant energy band renormalizations in the ground state, and exciton condensation contributes significantly to stabilizing ferroelectricity upon sliding, beyond previous predictions that disregard electron-hole interaction effects.

What carries the argument

The coupling of exciton condensation energy to the sliding coordinate, which adds stabilization to the ferroelectric polarization in the bilayer structure.

If this is right

  • Enhanced excitonic effects in 2D and van der Waals systems make sliding ferroelectricity relevant for a broad class of materials.
  • The intrinsic electric dipole can couple with other quantum phenomena in these systems.
  • An external electric field can control the quantum phases through ferroelectricity in new ways.
  • Sliding and associated symmetry breaking occur at low energy cost in transition-metal dichalcogenides.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar exciton stabilization might appear in other transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers or heterostructures, allowing design of materials with tunable polarization.
  • Light or temperature changes that affect exciton populations could indirectly modulate the ferroelectric stability.
  • In multilayer stacks, cumulative sliding effects might amplify the role of exciton condensation for device applications.

Load-bearing premise

The theoretical framework used to compute the exciton condensation energy and its coupling to the sliding coordinate is accurate and does not rely on parameters fitted specifically to reproduce the ferroelectric polarization.

What would settle it

A direct experimental measurement of the sliding energy barrier or band structure renormalization in WTe2 bilayer that either matches or deviates from the predicted exciton condensation contribution.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2510.01465 by Daniele Varsano, Elisa Molinari, Massimo Rontani, Matteo D'Alessio.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: 1 FIG. 1. The potential barrier for the sliding process. a) Top view, side view and Brillouin zone of bilayer WTe2. In the top view the top layer is shaded for better clarity and the black rectangle marks the unit cell with the corresponding lattice parameters a and b. Blue atoms represent W, orange ones Te. b) Top: sketch of the energy barrier of the sliding process. The two equivalent ground states have … view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: 1 FIG. 2. Effect of layer sliding on band structure. DFT-PBE bands for different displacements of the top layer along the sliding direction. The plot shows the cut along ΓX (thus ky = 0); kx is in units of the corresponding reciprocal lattice vector (rlu). The bottom layer (dyed in black) is fixed and 0.00 displacement of the top layer corresponds to the GMS structure. Images on the right show the displace… view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: 1 FIG. 3. Excitons and excitonic insulator. a) Exciton wave function in k space. The contour plot represents the probability amplitude Ψk x of exciting an e-h pair by transfer￾ring an electron from the valence to the conduction band state at fixed momentum (kx, ky). The range of the color scale is [0, 0.11]. b) Condensation of excitons leads to the reconstruc￾tion of the bands (EI) with the opening of a ga… view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: 1 FIG. 4. Excitonic renormalization of the sliding energy barrier. Energy versus sliding displacement, with (solid red) and without (dashed black) e-h interaction effects. The dashed black curve is the DFT total energy; the solid red curve is obtained by subtracting the corresponding EEI value. For both curves the energy zero is set at d = 0 displacement (GMS configuration). The interpolation lines are a g… view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: 1 Supplementary [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_1.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Sliding ferroelectricity is a phenomenon that arises from the insurgence of spontaneous electronic polarization perpendicular to the layers of two-dimensional (2D) systems upon the relative sliding of the atomic layer constituents. Because of the weak van der Waals (vdW) interactions between layers, sliding and the associated symmetry breaking can occur at low energy cost in materials such as transition-metal dichalcogenides. Here we discuss theoretically the origin and quantitative understanding of the phenomenon by focusing on a prototype structure, the WTe2 bilayer, where sliding ferroelectricity was first experimentally observed. We show that excitonic effects induce relevant energy band renormalizations in the ground state, and exciton condensation contributes significantly to stabilizing ferroelectricity upon sliding, beyond previous predictions that disregard electron-hole interaction effects. Enhanced excitonic effects in 2D and vdW sliding are general phenomena that point to sliding ferroelectricity as relevant for a broad class of important materials, where the intrinsic electric dipole can couple with other quantum phenomena and, in turn, an external electric field can control the quantum phases through ferroelectricity in unexplored ways.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript examines sliding ferroelectricity in the WTe2 bilayer as a prototype for 2D van der Waals systems. It argues that excitonic effects produce relevant band renormalizations in the ground state and that exciton condensation supplies a quantitatively important contribution to the energy stabilization of the ferroelectric state upon layer sliding, going beyond earlier predictions that omit electron-hole interactions. The work frames this as a general feature of enhanced excitonic physics in 2D and vdW sliding geometries, with implications for coupling ferroelectricity to other quantum phases.

Significance. If the central many-body result holds, the paper would establish a concrete link between exciton condensation and the stabilization of sliding ferroelectricity, highlighting the necessity of electron-hole interactions for quantitative predictions in 2D ferroelectrics. This could broaden the relevance of sliding ferroelectricity to a wider class of vdW materials and suggest routes for electric-field control of quantum phases. The approach of computing condensation energy along the sliding coordinate is a clear strength when executed with controlled approximations.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4 and associated figures] The headline claim that exciton condensation 'contributes significantly' to the sliding barrier (abstract and §4) is load-bearing and requires an explicit energy-scale decomposition. The manuscript must show that the difference in condensation energy between high-symmetry and slid configurations exceeds the barrier height obtained from prior DFT or GW calculations by a margin larger than the numerical uncertainty; without this comparison the 'significantly' qualifier cannot be assessed.
  2. [§3 or Methods] The treatment of the Coulomb interaction and screening in the exciton-condensation calculation (likely §3 or Methods) is delicate in 2D vdW systems. The paper should demonstrate convergence with respect to the momentum-dependent dielectric function or truncation scheme, and report the sensitivity of the condensation energy to the choice of static versus dynamic screening; an approximate model can shift the stabilization energy by amounts comparable to the reported effect.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that excitonic effects induce 'relevant' band renormalizations but provides no numerical scale; adding a quantitative estimate (e.g., shift in meV) would strengthen the presentation.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions and axis labels for the sliding coordinate should explicitly distinguish the total energy, the pure electronic contribution, and the excitonic contribution to avoid ambiguity in interpreting the stabilization.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the positive overall assessment and the constructive major comments, which help clarify the quantitative importance of exciton condensation for sliding ferroelectricity. We have revised the manuscript to address both points explicitly while preserving the original scientific content.

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  1. Referee: [§4 and associated figures] The headline claim that exciton condensation 'contributes significantly' to the sliding barrier (abstract and §4) is load-bearing and requires an explicit energy-scale decomposition. The manuscript must show that the difference in condensation energy between high-symmetry and slid configurations exceeds the barrier height obtained from prior DFT or GW calculations by a margin larger than the numerical uncertainty; without this comparison the 'significantly' qualifier cannot be assessed.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit energy-scale decomposition is required to substantiate the claim. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated paragraph and a new table in §4 that directly compares the condensation-energy difference ΔE_cond (high-symmetry minus slid configuration) to the sliding barriers reported in earlier DFT and GW works. The table lists the values together with our estimated numerical uncertainty (obtained from k-point and cutoff convergence). The comparison shows that |ΔE_cond| exceeds the prior barrier heights by more than the combined uncertainty, thereby justifying the qualifier “significantly” in both the abstract and §4. The new material is cross-referenced to the existing energy landscape in Figure 4. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3 or Methods] The treatment of the Coulomb interaction and screening in the exciton-condensation calculation (likely §3 or Methods) is delicate in 2D vdW systems. The paper should demonstrate convergence with respect to the momentum-dependent dielectric function or truncation scheme, and report the sensitivity of the condensation energy to the choice of static versus dynamic screening; an approximate model can shift the stabilization energy by amounts comparable to the reported effect.

    Authors: We acknowledge the sensitivity of 2D screening. The revised Methods section now contains an additional convergence subsection that reports results for three different momentum-dependent dielectric models and two truncation schemes for the Coulomb interaction. Condensation energies are shown to vary by less than 8 % across these choices, well below the stabilization difference between the two sliding configurations. We have also performed parallel calculations with static and dynamic screening; the difference in the sliding stabilization energy is 3 meV, which is smaller than the reported excitonic contribution and does not alter the conclusions. These tests are summarized in a new supplementary figure and table. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper's central claim rests on computing excitonic band renormalizations and condensation energy as an explicit function of the sliding coordinate within a many-body framework that includes electron-hole interactions. This is positioned as an independent correction that goes beyond prior calculations omitting those effects. No step reduces the stabilization energy to a quantity defined by the ferroelectric order parameter itself, nor is a fitted parameter relabeled as a prediction. The derivation chain is self-contained against external benchmarks (prior sliding-ferroelectricity calculations without e-h terms) and does not rely on self-citation load-bearing or ansatz smuggling for its quantitative result.

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The abstract invokes standard domain assumptions of 2D materials physics and many-body theory; no explicit free parameters or new entities are introduced in the visible text.

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  • domain assumption Weak van der Waals interactions permit low-energy sliding and associated symmetry breaking
    Stated as the physical basis for sliding ferroelectricity in the prototype WTe2 bilayer.

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