Tuning the electronic properties of J_eff=1/2 correlated semimetal in epitaxial perovskite SrIrO3
| Autor: | Liu, Jian, Chu, J. -H., Serrao, C. Rayan, Yi, D., Koralek, J., Nelson, C., Frontera, C., Kriegner, D., Horak, L., Arenholz, E., Orenstein, J., Vishwanath, A., Marti, X., Ramesh, R. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We investigated the electronic properties of epitaxially stabilized perovskite SrIrO3 and demonstrated the effective strain-control on its electronic structure. Comprehensive transport measurements showed that the strong spin-orbit coupling renders a novel semimetallic phase for the J_eff=1/2 electrons rather than an ordinary correlated metal, elucidating the nontrivial mechanism underlying the dimensionality-controlled metal-insulator transition in iridates. The electron-hole symmetry of this correlated semimetal was found to exhibit drastic variation when subject to bi-axial strain. Under compressive strain, substantial electron-hole asymmetry is observed in contrast to the tensile side, where the electron and hole effective masses are comparable, illustrating the susceptivity of the J_eff=1/2 to structural distortion. Tensile strain also shrinks the Fermi surface, indicative of an increasing degree of correlation which is consistent with optical measurements. These results pave a pathway to investigate and manipulate the electronic states in spin-orbit-coupled correlated oxides, and lay the foundation for constructing 5d transition metal heterostructures. Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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