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Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie

SFB Seminar

Dimensionality-Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in Spin-Orbit-Coupled SrIrO3 (Projects C07 and C08)
Datum: 06.12.2018, 16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Kategorie: Seminar
Ort: Hubland Süd, Geb. P1 (Physik), SE 2
Veranstalter: SFB 1170 ToCoTronics
Vortragende:r: Philipp Schütz - Universität Würzburg

Upon reduction of the film thickness we observe a metal-insulator transition in epitaxially stabilized, spin-orbit-coupled SrIrO3 ultrathin films. By comparison of the experimental electronic dispersions with density functional theory at various levels of complexity we identify the leading microscopic mechanisms, i.e., a dimensionality-induced readjustment of octahedral rotations, magnetism, and electronic correlations. The astonishing resemblance of the band structure in the two-dimensional limit to that of bulk Sr2IrO4 opens new avenues to unconventional superconductivity by “clean” electron doping through electric field gating.

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