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Title: Disentangled Cooperative Orderings in Artificial Rare-Earth Nickelates

Abstract

Coupled transitions between distinct ordered phases are important aspects behind the rich phase complexity of correlated oxides that hinder our understanding of the underlying phenomena. For this reason, fundamental control over complex transitions has become a leading motivation of the designer approach to materials. We have devised a series of new superlattices by combining a Mott insulator and a correlated metal to form ultrashort period superlattices, which allow one to disentangle the simultaneous orderings in RENiO3. Tailoring an incommensurate heterostructure period relative to the bulk charge ordering pattern suppresses the charge order transition while preserving metal-insulator and antiferromagnetic transitions. Such selective decoupling of the entangled phases resolves the long-standing puzzle about the driving force behind the metal-insulator transition and points to the site-selective Mott transition as the operative mechanism. This designer approach emphasizes the potential of heterointerfaces for selective control of simultaneous transitions in complex materials with entwined broken symmetries.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [5];  [3]
  1. Indian Inst. of Science, Bangalore (India). Dept. of Physics
  2. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
  3. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  5. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Indian Institute of Science, India
OSTI Identifier:
1457349
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1432422; OSTI ID: 1461268
Report Number(s):
BNL-205798-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; TRN: US1901362
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; GBMF4534; SC0012375; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 120; Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Middey, S., Meyers, D., Kareev, M., Cao, Yanwei, Liu, X., Shafer, P., Freeland, J. W., Kim, J. -W., Ryan, P. J., and Chakhalian, J. Disentangled Cooperative Orderings in Artificial Rare-Earth Nickelates. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.156801.
Middey, S., Meyers, D., Kareev, M., Cao, Yanwei, Liu, X., Shafer, P., Freeland, J. W., Kim, J. -W., Ryan, P. J., & Chakhalian, J. Disentangled Cooperative Orderings in Artificial Rare-Earth Nickelates. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.156801
Middey, S., Meyers, D., Kareev, M., Cao, Yanwei, Liu, X., Shafer, P., Freeland, J. W., Kim, J. -W., Ryan, P. J., and Chakhalian, J. Mon . "Disentangled Cooperative Orderings in Artificial Rare-Earth Nickelates". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.156801. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1457349.
@article{osti_1457349,
title = {Disentangled Cooperative Orderings in Artificial Rare-Earth Nickelates},
author = {Middey, S. and Meyers, D. and Kareev, M. and Cao, Yanwei and Liu, X. and Shafer, P. and Freeland, J. W. and Kim, J. -W. and Ryan, P. J. and Chakhalian, J.},
abstractNote = {Coupled transitions between distinct ordered phases are important aspects behind the rich phase complexity of correlated oxides that hinder our understanding of the underlying phenomena. For this reason, fundamental control over complex transitions has become a leading motivation of the designer approach to materials. We have devised a series of new superlattices by combining a Mott insulator and a correlated metal to form ultrashort period superlattices, which allow one to disentangle the simultaneous orderings in RENiO3. Tailoring an incommensurate heterostructure period relative to the bulk charge ordering pattern suppresses the charge order transition while preserving metal-insulator and antiferromagnetic transitions. Such selective decoupling of the entangled phases resolves the long-standing puzzle about the driving force behind the metal-insulator transition and points to the site-selective Mott transition as the operative mechanism. This designer approach emphasizes the potential of heterointerfaces for selective control of simultaneous transitions in complex materials with entwined broken symmetries.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.156801},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 15,
volume = 120,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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