Spatial inhomogeneity and the metal-insulator transition in
Abstract
Turning a pristine Mott insulator into a correlated metal by chemical doping is a common procedure in strongly correlated materials physics, e.g., underlying the phenomenology of high-Tc cuprates. The ruthenate bilayer compound Ca3Ru2O7 is a prominent example of a reversed case, namely, a correlated metal at stoichiometry that realizes a transition into an insulating state via Ti doping. We here investigate this puzzling metal-insulator transition (MIT) by first-principles many-body theory and elucidate a challenging interplay between electronic correlations and symmetry breaking on the Ru sublattice. While average effects on the Ca3Ru2O7 crystal structure are still relevant, the key to the MIT is the cooperation of electronic correlations with the spatial inhomogeneity in the defect regime. Together they give rise to the emergence of site-selective Mott criticality and competing orbital-ordering tendencies.
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- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1665899
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- OSTI ID: 1664396
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- SC0018218
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Research Journal Volume: 2 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2643-1564
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Metal-insulator transition; Ruthenates; Electron-correlation calculations
Citation Formats
Lechermann, Frank, Han, Qiang, and Millis, Andrew J. Spatial inhomogeneity and the metal-insulator transition in Ca 3 ( Ru 1 − x Ti x ) 2 O 7. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033490.
Lechermann, Frank, Han, Qiang, & Millis, Andrew J. Spatial inhomogeneity and the metal-insulator transition in Ca 3 ( Ru 1 − x Ti x ) 2 O 7. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033490
Lechermann, Frank, Han, Qiang, and Millis, Andrew J. Thu .
"Spatial inhomogeneity and the metal-insulator transition in Ca 3 ( Ru 1 − x Ti x ) 2 O 7". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033490.
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title = {Spatial inhomogeneity and the metal-insulator transition in Ca 3 ( Ru 1 − x Ti x ) 2 O 7},
author = {Lechermann, Frank and Han, Qiang and Millis, Andrew J.},
abstractNote = {Turning a pristine Mott insulator into a correlated metal by chemical doping is a common procedure in strongly correlated materials physics, e.g., underlying the phenomenology of high-Tc cuprates. The ruthenate bilayer compound Ca3Ru2O7 is a prominent example of a reversed case, namely, a correlated metal at stoichiometry that realizes a transition into an insulating state via Ti doping. We here investigate this puzzling metal-insulator transition (MIT) by first-principles many-body theory and elucidate a challenging interplay between electronic correlations and symmetry breaking on the Ru sublattice. While average effects on the Ca3Ru2O7 crystal structure are still relevant, the key to the MIT is the cooperation of electronic correlations with the spatial inhomogeneity in the defect regime. Together they give rise to the emergence of site-selective Mott criticality and competing orbital-ordering tendencies.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033490},
journal = {Physical Review Research},
number = 3,
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year = {Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033490
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