Tuning the metal-insulator transition in ${\mathrm{NdNiO}}_{3}$ heterostructures via Fermi surface instability and spin fluctuations
- Dhaka, R. S. Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland - Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
- Das, Tanmoy Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. - Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Plumb, N. C. Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Ristic, Z. Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland - Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Kong, W. Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland - Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Matt, C. E. Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland - Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Xu, N. Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Dolui, Kapildeb Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Razzoli, Elia Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Medarde, M. Laboratory for Developments and Methods, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Patthey, L. SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Shi, M. Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Radović, M. Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland - SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Mesot, Joël Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland - Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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14.07.2015
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- Physical Review B. - 2015, vol. 92, no. 3, p. 035127
English
We employed in situ pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to investigate the mechanism of the metal-insulator transition (MIT) in NdNiO3 (NNO) thin films, grown on NdGaO3(110) and LaAlO3(100) substrates. In the metallic phase, we observe three-dimensional hole and electron Fermi surface (FS) pockets formed from strongly renormalized bands with well-defined quasiparticles. Upon cooling across the MIT in NNO/NGO sample, the quasiparticles lose coherence via a spectral weight transfer from near the Fermi level to localized states forming at higher binding energies. In the case of NNO/LAO, the bands are apparently shifted upward with an additional holelike pocket forming at the corner of the Brillouin zone. We find that the renormalization effects are strongly anisotropic and are stronger in NNO/NGO than NNO/LAO. Our study reveals that substrate-induced strain tunes the crystal field splitting, which changes the FS properties, nesting conditions, and spin-fluctuation strength, and thereby controls the MIT via the formation of an electronic order parameter with QAF∼(1/4,1/4,1/4±δ).
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- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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- Département de Physique
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- English
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- Physics
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- RERO DOC 257351
- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.035127
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