Interfacial charge-transfer Mott state in iridate-nickelate superlattices.

interfacial charge transfer iridates nickelates superlattice

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 1091-6490
Titre abrégé: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7505876

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Oct 2019
Historique:
pubmed: 19 9 2019
medline: 19 9 2019
entrez: 19 9 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We investigate [Formula: see text]/[Formula: see text] superlattices in which we observe a full electron transfer at the interface from Ir to Ni, triggering a massive structural and electronic reconstruction. Through experimental characterization and first-principles calculations, we determine that a large crystal field splitting from the distorted interfacial [Formula: see text] octahedra surprisingly dominates over the spin-orbit coupling and together with the Hund's coupling results in the high-spin (S = 1) configurations on both the Ir and Ni sites. This demonstrates the power of interfacial charge transfer in coupling lattice, charge, orbital, and spin degrees of freedom, opening fresh avenues of investigation of quantum states in oxide superlattices.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31527227
pii: 1907043116
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1907043116
pmc: PMC6778181
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

19863-19868

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Xiaoran Liu (X)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854; xiaoran.liu@rutgers.edu kmrabe@physics.rutgers.edu.

Michele Kotiuga (M)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

Heung-Sik Kim (HS)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

Alpha T N'Diaye (AT)

Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Yongseong Choi (Y)

Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.

Qinghua Zhang (Q)

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed-Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

Yanwei Cao (Y)

Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, China.

Mikhail Kareev (M)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

Fangdi Wen (F)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

Banabir Pal (B)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

John W Freeland (JW)

Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.

Lin Gu (L)

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed-Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

Daniel Haskel (D)

Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.

Padraic Shafer (P)

Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Elke Arenholz (E)

Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Kristjan Haule (K)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

David Vanderbilt (D)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

Karin M Rabe (KM)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854; xiaoran.liu@rutgers.edu kmrabe@physics.rutgers.edu.

Jak Chakhalian (J)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

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