First-order melting of a weak spin-orbit mott insulator into a correlated metal
Abstract
Herein, the electronic phase diagram of the weak spin-orbit Mott insulator (Sr1-xLax)3Ir2O7 is determined via an exhaustive experimental study. Upon doping electrons via La substitution, an immediate collapse in resistivity occurs along with a narrow regime of nanoscale phase separation comprised of antiferromagnetic, insulating regions and paramagnetic, metallic puddles persisting until x≈0.04. Continued electron doping results in an abrupt, first-order phase boundary where the Néel state is suppressed and a homogenous, correlated, metallic state appears with an enhanced spin susceptibility and local moments. In conclusion, as the metallic state is stabilized, a weak structural distortion develops and suggests a competing instability with the parent spin-orbit Mott state.
- Authors:
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- Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
- Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, National Research Council, Ontario (Canada)
- Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States).
- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1286869
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1198531
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; NE-AC02-06CH11357; AC02-98CH10886
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 114; Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Hogan, Tom, Yamani, Z., Walkup, D., Chen, Xiang, Dally, Rebecca, Ward, Thomas Zac, Dean, M. P. M., Hill, John P., Islam, Z., Madhavan, Vidya, and Wilson, Stephen D. First-order melting of a weak spin-orbit mott insulator into a correlated metal. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.257203.
Hogan, Tom, Yamani, Z., Walkup, D., Chen, Xiang, Dally, Rebecca, Ward, Thomas Zac, Dean, M. P. M., Hill, John P., Islam, Z., Madhavan, Vidya, & Wilson, Stephen D. First-order melting of a weak spin-orbit mott insulator into a correlated metal. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.257203
Hogan, Tom, Yamani, Z., Walkup, D., Chen, Xiang, Dally, Rebecca, Ward, Thomas Zac, Dean, M. P. M., Hill, John P., Islam, Z., Madhavan, Vidya, and Wilson, Stephen D. Thu .
"First-order melting of a weak spin-orbit mott insulator into a correlated metal". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.257203. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1286869.
@article{osti_1286869,
title = {First-order melting of a weak spin-orbit mott insulator into a correlated metal},
author = {Hogan, Tom and Yamani, Z. and Walkup, D. and Chen, Xiang and Dally, Rebecca and Ward, Thomas Zac and Dean, M. P. M. and Hill, John P. and Islam, Z. and Madhavan, Vidya and Wilson, Stephen D.},
abstractNote = {Herein, the electronic phase diagram of the weak spin-orbit Mott insulator (Sr1-xLax)3Ir2O7 is determined via an exhaustive experimental study. Upon doping electrons via La substitution, an immediate collapse in resistivity occurs along with a narrow regime of nanoscale phase separation comprised of antiferromagnetic, insulating regions and paramagnetic, metallic puddles persisting until x≈0.04. Continued electron doping results in an abrupt, first-order phase boundary where the Néel state is suppressed and a homogenous, correlated, metallic state appears with an enhanced spin susceptibility and local moments. In conclusion, as the metallic state is stabilized, a weak structural distortion develops and suggests a competing instability with the parent spin-orbit Mott state.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.257203},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 25,
volume = 114,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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