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Tuning the metal-insulator transition in epitaxial SrVO3 films by uniaxial strain
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Wang, Changan Zhang, Hong-Bin Deepak, Kumar Chen, Chao Fouchet, Arnaud Duan, Juanmei Hilliard, Donovan Kentsch, Ulrich Chen, Deyang Zeng, Min Gao, Xingsen Zeng, Yujia Helm, Manfred Burkhard Prellier, Wilfrid Zhou, Shengqiang |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Understanding of the metal-insulator transition (MIT) in correlated transition-metal oxides is a fascinating topic in condensed matter physics and a precise control of such transitions plays a key role in developing novel electronic devices. Here we report an effective tuning of the MIT in epitaxial SrVO3 (SVO) films by expanding the out-of-plane lattice constant without changing in-plane lattice parameters, through helium ion irradiation. Upon increase of the ion fluence, we observe a MIT with a crossover from metallic to insulating state in SVO films. A combination of transport and magnetoresistance measurements in SVO at low temperatures reveals that the observed MIT is mainly ascribed to electron-electron interactions rather than disorder-induced localization. Moreover, these results are well supported by the combination of density functional theory and dynamical mean field theory (DFT+DMFT) calculations, further confirming the decrease of the bandwidth and the enhanced electron-electron interactions resulting from the expansion of out-of-plane lattice constant. These findings provide new insights into the understanding of MIT in correlated oxides and perspectives for the design of unexpected functional devices based on strongly correlated electrons. |
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| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.115001 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.06629v1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://export.arxiv.org/pdf/1904.06629 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |