Ground-state tuning of metal-insulator transition by compositional variations in BaIr1–xRuxO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1)

Yuan, S. J.; Butrouna, Kamal; Terzic, J.; Zheng, Hao; Aswartham, S.; DeLong, Lance E.; Ye, Feng; Schlottmann, Pedro; Cao, Gang

doi:10.1103/physrevb.93.165136

Title: Ground-state tuning of metal-insulator transition by compositional variations in BaIr_1–xRu_xO₃ (0 ≤ x ≤ 1)

Journal Article · Mon Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.93.165136· OSTI ID:1897820

Yuan, S. J. ^[1]; Butrouna, Kamal ^[1]; Terzic, J. ^[1]; Zheng, Hao ^[1]; Aswartham, S. ^[1]; DeLong, Lance E. ^[1];

^[2]; Schlottmann, Pedro ^[3]; Cao, Gang ^[1]

Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)

Hexagonal BaIrO₃ is a magnetic insulator driven by the spin-orbit interaction (SOI), whereas BaRuO₃ is an enhanced paramagnetic metal. Here, our investigation of structural, magnetic, transport, and thermal properties reveals that substitution of Ru⁴⁺ (4d⁴) ions for Ir⁴⁺ (5d⁵) ions in BaIrO₃ reduces the magnitudes of the SOI and a monoclinic structural distortion and rebalances the competition between the SOI and the lattice degrees of freedom to render an evolution from a magnetic insulting state to a robust metallic state. The central findings of this paper are as follows: (1) light Ru doping (0 < x ≤ 0.15) prompts simultaneous, precipitous drops in both the magnetic ordering temperature T_N and the electrical resistivity, and (2) heavier Ru doping (0.41 ≤ x ≤ 0.9) induces a robust metallic state without any long-range magnetic order. All results suggest a critical role of the lattice degrees of freedom in determining the ground state in the heavy transition-metal oxides.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; DMR-1265162; FG02-98ER45707; FG02-97ER45653

OSTI ID:: 1897820

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1249709

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Vol. 93, Issue 16; ISSN 2469-9950

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