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Title: Stacked charge stripes in the quasi-2D trilayer nickelate La 4 Ni 3 O 8

Abstract

The quasi-2D nickelate La4Ni3O8 (La-438), consisting of trilayer networks of square planar Ni ions, is a member of the so-called T' family, which is derived from the Ruddlesden-Popper (R-P) parent compound La4Ni3O10-x by removing two oxygen atoms and rearranging the rock salt layers to fluorite-type layers. Although previous studies on polycrystalline samples have identified a 105-K phase transition with a pronounced electronic and magnetic response but weak lattice character, no consensus on the origin of this transition has been reached. We show using synchrotron X-ray diffraction on high-pO(2) floating zone-grown single crystals that this transition is associated with a real space ordering of charge into a quasi-2D charge stripe ground state. We found that the charge stripe superlattice propagation vector, q = (2/3, 0, 1), corresponds with that those in the related 1/3-hole doped single- layer R-P nickelate, La5/3Sr1/3NiO4 (LSNO-1/3; Ni2.33+), with orientation at 45 degrees to the Ni-O bonds. Furthermore, the charge stripes in La-438 are weakly correlated along c to form a staggered ABAB stacking that reduces the Coulomb repulsion among the stripes. Surprisingly, however, we find that the charge stripes within each trilayer of La-438 are stacked in phase from one layer to the next, at oddsmore » with any simple Coulomb repulsion argument.« less

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  1. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439,
  2. ChemMatCARS, The University of Chicago, Argonne, IL 60439
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Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1273671
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OSTI ID: 1356847
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC0206CH11357; AC02-06CH11357
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Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Volume: 113 Journal Issue: 32; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; charge ordering; nickelates; stripe phase; strongly correlated materials

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Zhang, Junjie, Chen, Yu-Sheng, Phelan, D., Zheng, Hong, Norman, M. R., and Mitchell, J. F. Stacked charge stripes in the quasi-2D trilayer nickelate La 4 Ni 3 O 8. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1606637113.
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Zhang, Junjie, Chen, Yu-Sheng, Phelan, D., Zheng, Hong, Norman, M. R., & Mitchell, J. F. Stacked charge stripes in the quasi-2D trilayer nickelate La 4 Ni 3 O 8. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606637113
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Zhang, Junjie, Chen, Yu-Sheng, Phelan, D., Zheng, Hong, Norman, M. R., and Mitchell, J. F. Tue . "Stacked charge stripes in the quasi-2D trilayer nickelate La 4 Ni 3 O 8". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606637113.
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@article{osti_1273671,
title = {Stacked charge stripes in the quasi-2D trilayer nickelate La 4 Ni 3 O 8},
author = {Zhang, Junjie and Chen, Yu-Sheng and Phelan, D. and Zheng, Hong and Norman, M. R. and Mitchell, J. F.},
abstractNote = {The quasi-2D nickelate La4Ni3O8 (La-438), consisting of trilayer networks of square planar Ni ions, is a member of the so-called T' family, which is derived from the Ruddlesden-Popper (R-P) parent compound La4Ni3O10-x by removing two oxygen atoms and rearranging the rock salt layers to fluorite-type layers. Although previous studies on polycrystalline samples have identified a 105-K phase transition with a pronounced electronic and magnetic response but weak lattice character, no consensus on the origin of this transition has been reached. We show using synchrotron X-ray diffraction on high-pO(2) floating zone-grown single crystals that this transition is associated with a real space ordering of charge into a quasi-2D charge stripe ground state. We found that the charge stripe superlattice propagation vector, q = (2/3, 0, 1), corresponds with that those in the related 1/3-hole doped single- layer R-P nickelate, La5/3Sr1/3NiO4 (LSNO-1/3; Ni2.33+), with orientation at 45 degrees to the Ni-O bonds. Furthermore, the charge stripes in La-438 are weakly correlated along c to form a staggered ABAB stacking that reduces the Coulomb repulsion among the stripes. Surprisingly, however, we find that the charge stripes within each trilayer of La-438 are stacked in phase from one layer to the next, at odds with any simple Coulomb repulsion argument.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1606637113},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 32,
volume = 113,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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