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Title: Aberrant electronic and structural alterations in pressure tuned perovskite NaOsO3

Abstract

The perovskite NaOsO3 has a metal–insulator transition at temperature 410 K, which is delicate, intriguing, and provokes a lot of debate on its nature. Our combined electrical resistance, Raman, and synchrotron x-ray diffraction experiments show that the insulating ground state in this osmate endures under high pressure up to at least 35 GPa. In this pressure range, compression reveals hidden hysteretic resistance properties with a transient metallic state near 200 K, manifested three electronic character anomalies (at 1.7, 9.0, and 25.5 GPa), and a structural transition to the singular polar phase (at ~18 GPa). We distinguish NaOsO3 from the regular crystallographic behavior of perovskites, though the electrical specificities resemble iridates and nickelates. The theoretical first-principle band structure and lattice dynamics calculations demonstrate that the magnetically itinerant Lifshitz-type mechanism with spin–orbit and spin–phonon interactions is responsible for these pressure-induced changes. Our findings provide another new playground for the emergence of new states in 5d materials by using high-pressure methods.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [5];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6]; ORCiD logo [7]; ORCiD logo [8]; ORCiD logo [5];  [5]
  1. Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing (China); Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas (Lithuania)
  2. Univ. of Vienna (Austria)
  3. Univ. of Vienna (Austria); Kunsan National Univ., Gunsan (Korea)
  4. Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu (Korea)
  5. Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing (China)
  6. National Inst. for Materials Science, Ibaraki (Japan)
  7. Argonne National Lab., Lemont, IL (United States)
  8. Univ. of Vienna (Austria); Univ. di Bologna (Italy)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) - National Supercomputing Center; National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
OSTI Identifier:
1663223
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
npj Quantum Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2397-4648
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Sereika, Raimundas, Liu, Peitao, Kim, Bongjae, Kim, Sooran, Zhang, Jianbo, Chen, Bijuan, Yamaura, Kazunari, Park, Changyong, Franchini, Cesare, Ding, Yang, and Mao, Ho-kwang. Aberrant electronic and structural alterations in pressure tuned perovskite NaOsO3. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1038/s41535-020-00269-3.
Sereika, Raimundas, Liu, Peitao, Kim, Bongjae, Kim, Sooran, Zhang, Jianbo, Chen, Bijuan, Yamaura, Kazunari, Park, Changyong, Franchini, Cesare, Ding, Yang, & Mao, Ho-kwang. Aberrant electronic and structural alterations in pressure tuned perovskite NaOsO3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-020-00269-3
Sereika, Raimundas, Liu, Peitao, Kim, Bongjae, Kim, Sooran, Zhang, Jianbo, Chen, Bijuan, Yamaura, Kazunari, Park, Changyong, Franchini, Cesare, Ding, Yang, and Mao, Ho-kwang. Wed . "Aberrant electronic and structural alterations in pressure tuned perovskite NaOsO3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-020-00269-3. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1663223.
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title = {Aberrant electronic and structural alterations in pressure tuned perovskite NaOsO3},
author = {Sereika, Raimundas and Liu, Peitao and Kim, Bongjae and Kim, Sooran and Zhang, Jianbo and Chen, Bijuan and Yamaura, Kazunari and Park, Changyong and Franchini, Cesare and Ding, Yang and Mao, Ho-kwang},
abstractNote = {The perovskite NaOsO3 has a metal–insulator transition at temperature 410 K, which is delicate, intriguing, and provokes a lot of debate on its nature. Our combined electrical resistance, Raman, and synchrotron x-ray diffraction experiments show that the insulating ground state in this osmate endures under high pressure up to at least 35 GPa. In this pressure range, compression reveals hidden hysteretic resistance properties with a transient metallic state near 200 K, manifested three electronic character anomalies (at 1.7, 9.0, and 25.5 GPa), and a structural transition to the singular polar phase (at ~18 GPa). We distinguish NaOsO3 from the regular crystallographic behavior of perovskites, though the electrical specificities resemble iridates and nickelates. The theoretical first-principle band structure and lattice dynamics calculations demonstrate that the magnetically itinerant Lifshitz-type mechanism with spin–orbit and spin–phonon interactions is responsible for these pressure-induced changes. Our findings provide another new playground for the emergence of new states in 5d materials by using high-pressure methods.},
doi = {10.1038/s41535-020-00269-3},
journal = {npj Quantum Materials},
number = 1,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Suppression of the temperature-dependent MIT in NaOsO3. a Temperature dependence of the resistance at various pressures. The inset emphasizes the hysteresis evolution over pressure at T= 295 K. b TMIT vs. pressure. The inset for MIT observed at ambient pressure is taken from ref. 3. The inset demonstratingmore » MIT at 32.5 GPa represents data from this work. The resistance at high pressure becomes low and TMIT is washed. The error bars represent the uncertainty in determining TMIT and P. c The electrical resistivity measurement during sample compression at fixed temperature of T= 295 K. The inset shows the actual set-up for the resistivity measurement between a pair of diamond anvils: four thin platinum probes attached to the sample, and the ruby sphere loaded for pressure determination.« less

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