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Light-Induced Mott-Insulator-to-Metal Phase Transition in Ultrathin Intermediate-Spin Ferromagnetic Perovskite Ruthenates.
Liu, Ruxin; Si, Liang; Niu, Wei; Zhang, Xu; Chen, Zhongqiang; Zhu, Changzheng; Zhuang, Wenzhuo; Chen, Yongda; Zhou, Liqi; Zhang, Chunchen; Wang, Peng; Song, Fengqi; Tang, Lin; Xu, Yongbing; Zhong, Zhicheng; Zhang, Rong; Wang, Xuefeng.
Afiliação
  • Liu R; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Si L; School of Physics, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China.
  • Niu W; Institute of Solid State Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, 1040, Austria.
  • Zhang X; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Chen Z; School of Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China.
  • Zhu C; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Zhuang W; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Chen Y; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Zhou L; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Zhang C; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Wang P; College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Song F; College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Tang L; College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Xu Y; Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
  • Zhong Z; School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
  • Zhang R; Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
  • Wang X; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
Adv Mater ; 35(12): e2211612, 2023 Mar.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36626850
ABSTRACT
Light control of emergent quantum phenomena is a widely used external stimulus for quantum materials. Generally, perovskite strontium ruthenate SrRuO3 has an itinerant ferromagnetism with a low-spin state. However, the phase of intermediate-spin (IS) ferromagnetic metallic state has never been seen. Here, by means of UV-light irradiation, a photocarrier-doping-induced Mott-insulator-to-metal phase transition is shown in a few atomic layers of perovskite IS ferromagnetic SrRuO3- δ . This new metastable IS metallic phase can be reversibly regulated due to the convenient photocharge transfer from SrTiO3 substrates to SrRuO3- δ ultrathin films. These dynamical mean-field theory calculations further verify such photoinduced electronic phase transformation, owing to oxygen vacancies and orbital reconstruction. The optical manipulation of charge-transfer finesse is an alternative pathway toward discovering novel metastable phases in strongly correlated systems and facilitates potential light-controlled device applications in optoelectronics and spintronics.
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