We study the electronic structure of bulk $1{\mathrm{T}\text{−}\mathrm{TaSe}}_2$ in the charge-density wave phase at low temperature. Our spatially and angle-resolved photoemission data show insulating areas coexisting with metallic regions characterized by a chiral Fermi surface and moderately correlated quasiparticle bands. Additionally, high-resolution laser angle-resolved photoemission reveals variations in the metallic regions, with series of low-energy states, whose energy, number, and dispersion can be explained by the formation of quantum well states of different thicknesses. Dynamical mean field theory calculations show that the observed rich behavior can be rationalized by assuming occasional stacking faults of the charge density wave. Our results indicate that the diverse electronic phenomena reported previously in $1{\mathrm{T}\text{−}\mathrm{TaSe}}_2$ are dictated by the stacking arrangement and the resulting quantum size effects while correlation effects play a secondary role.

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• Charge density waves
• Electronic structure
• Mott insulators
• Strongly correlated systems
• Transition metal dichalcogenides
• Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
• DFT+DMFT