Slater insulator in iridate perovskites with strong spin-orbit coupling

Cui, Q.; Cheng, J. -G.; Fan, W.; Taylor, Alice E.; Calder, Stuart A.; McGuire, Michael A.; Yan, Jia -Qiang; Meyers, D.; Li, X.; Cai, Y. Q.; Jiao, Y. Y.; Choi, Y.; Haskel, Daniel; Gotou, H.; Uwatoko, Yoshiya; Chakhalian, J.; Christianson, Andrew D.; Yunoki, S.; Goodenough, J. B.; Zhou, J. -S.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.176603

Title: Slater insulator in iridate perovskites with strong spin-orbit coupling

Journal Article · Thu Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.176603· OSTI ID:1330558

Cui, Q. ^[1]; Cheng, J. -G. ^[2]; Fan, W. ^[3]; Taylor, Alice E. ^[4]; Calder, Stuart A. ^[4]; McGuire, Michael A. ^[4]; Yan, Jia -Qiang ^[5]; Meyers, D. ^[6]; Li, X. ^[7]; Cai, Y. Q. ^[1]; Jiao, Y. Y. ^[1]; Choi, Y. ^[8]; Haskel, Daniel ^[8]; Gotou, H. ^[9]; Uwatoko, Yoshiya ^[9]; Chakhalian, J. ^[10]; Christianson, Andrew D. ^[5]; Yunoki, S. ^[11]; Goodenough, J. B. ^[7]; Zhou, J. -S. ^[7]

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (United States)
RIKEN, Saitama (Japan)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)
Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba (Japan)
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
RIKEN, Saitama (Japan); RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Hyogo (Japan); RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Saitama (Japan)

The perovskite SrIrO₃ is an exotic narrow-band metal owing to a confluence of the strengths of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and the electron-electron correlations. It has been proposed that topological and magnetic insulating phases can be achieved by tuning the SOC, Hubbard interactions, and/or lattice symmetry. Here, we report that the substitution of nonmagnetic, isovalent Sn⁴⁺ for Ir⁴⁺ in the SrIr_1–xSn_xO₃ perovskites synthesized under high pressure leads to a metal-insulator transition to an antiferromagnetic (AF) phase at T_N ≥ 225 K. The continuous change of the cell volume as detected by x-ray diffraction and the λ-shape transition of the specific heat on cooling through T_N demonstrate that the metal-insulator transition is of second order. Neutron powder diffraction results indicate that the Sn substitution enlarges an octahedral-site distortion that reduces the SOC relative to the spin-spin exchange interaction and results in the type-G AF spin ordering below T_N. Measurement of high-temperature magnetic susceptibility shows the evolution of magnetic coupling in the paramagnetic phase typical of weak itinerant-electron magnetism in the Sn-substituted samples. Furthermore, a reduced structural symmetry in the magnetically ordered phase leads to an electron gap opening at the Brillouin zone boundary below T_N in the same way as proposed by Slater.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1330558

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1329447

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 17; ISSN 0031-9007

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