Interfacial charge-transfer Mott state in iridate–nickelate superlattices

Liu, Xiaoran; Kotiuga, Michele; Kim, Heung-Sik; N’Diaye, Alpha T.; Choi, Yongseong; Zhang, Qinghua; Cao, Yanwei; Kareev, Mikhail; Wen, Fangdi; Pal, Banabir; Freeland, John W.; Gu, Lin; Haskel, Daniel; Shafer, Padraic; Arenholz, Elke; Haule, Kristjan; Vanderbilt, David; Rabe, Karin M.; Chakhalian, Jak

doi:10.1073/pnas.1907043116

Title: Interfacial charge-transfer Mott state in iridate–nickelate superlattices

Journal Article · 16 September 2019 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907043116 · OSTI ID:1574930

^[1]; Kotiuga, Michele ^[1]; Kim, Heung-Sik ^[1]; N’Diaye, Alpha T. ^[2]; Choi, Yongseong ^[3]; Zhang, Qinghua ^[4]; Cao, Yanwei ^[5]; Kareev, Mikhail ^[1]; Wen, Fangdi ^[1]; Pal, Banabir ^[1]; Freeland, John W. ^[3]; Gu, Lin ^[4]; Haskel, Daniel ^[3];

^[2]; Arenholz, Elke ^[6]; Haule, Kristjan ^[1];

^[1]; Rabe, Karin M. ^[1]; Chakhalian, Jak ^[1]

Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang (China)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)

We investigate SrIrO3/LaNiO3 superlattices in which we observe a full electron transfer at the interface from Ir to Ni, triggering a massive structural and electronic reconstruction. Through experimental characterization and first-principles calculations, we determine that a large crystal field splitting from the distorted interfacial IrO6 octahedra surprisingly dominates over the spin–orbit coupling and together with the Hund’s coupling results in the high-spin (S = 1) configurations on both the Ir and Ni sites. This demonstrates the power of interfacial charge transfer in coupling lattice, charge, orbital, and spin degrees of freedom, opening fresh avenues of investigation of quantum states in oxide superlattices.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); USDOD; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; SC0012375; GBMF4534; N000014-17-1-2770; DMR-1629346; DMR-1629059; N00014-16-1-2951

OSTI ID:: 1574930

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1637298

Journal Information:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, Issue 40; ISSN 0027-8424

Publisher:: National Academy of SciencesCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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