Giant switchable Rashba effect in oxide heterostructures

Zhong, Zhicheng; Si, Liang; Zhang, Qinfang; Yin, Wei-Guo; Yunoki, Seiji; Held, Karsten

doi:10.1002/admi.201400445

Title: Giant switchable Rashba effect in oxide heterostructures

Journal Article · Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Advanced Materials Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201400445· OSTI ID:1182510

Zhong, Zhicheng ^[1]; Si, Liang ^[1]; Zhang, Qinfang ^[2]; Yin, Wei-Guo ^[3]; Yunoki, Seiji ^[4]; Held, Karsten ^[1]

Vienna Univ. of Technology, Vienna (Austria)
Vienna Univ. of Technology, Vienna (Austria); Yancheng Inst. of Technology (China)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Computational Condensed Matter Physics Lab., Wako, Saitama (Japan); Advanced Inst. for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo (Japan); Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako, Saitama (Japan)

One of the most fundamental phenomena and a reminder of the electron’s relativistic nature is the Rashba spin splitting for broken inversion symmetry. Usually this splitting is a tiny relativistic correction. Interfacing ferroelectric BaTiO₃ and a 5d (or 4d) transition metal oxide with a large spin-orbit coupling, Ba(Os,Ir,Ru)O₃, we show that giant Rashba spin splittings are indeed possible and even controllable by an external electric field. Based on density functional theory and a microscopic tight binding understanding, we conclude that the electric field is amplified and stored as a ferroelectric Ti-O distortion which, through the network of oxygen octahedra, induces a large (Os,Ir,Ru)-O distortion. The BaTiO₃/Ba(Os,Ru,Ir)O₃ heterostructure is hence the ideal test station for switching and studying the Rashba effect and allows applications at room temperature.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704

OSTI ID:: 1182510

Report Number(s):: BNL-107478-2015-JA; BNL-107478-2015-JAAM; R&D Project: PO015; KC0202030

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials Interfaces, Vol. 2, Issue 5; ISSN 2196-7350

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