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体敏软X射线ARPES揭示的非对称CrO $_2$铁磁性的弱关联性质

Weakly-correlated nature of ferromagnetism in non symmorphic CrO$_2$ revealed by bulk-sensitive soft X ray ARPES

F. Bisti, V. A. Rogalev, M. Karolak, S. Paul, A. Gupta, T. Schmitt, G. Güntherodt, V. Eyert, G. Sangiovanni, G. Profeta, V. N. Strocov

摘要:

二氧化铬CrO $_2$属于一类称为铁磁半金属的材料,其独特之处在于在一个自旋取向上充当金属,而在相反的自旋取向上充当半导体或绝缘体。尽管许多实验和理论研究的动机是这种材料在自旋电子学中的重要技术应用,但其基本性质,如动量分辨电子色散和费米表面,迄今为止仍然是实验无法达到的,这是由于其表面的亚稳态,立即减少到非晶Cr $_2$ O $_3$。在这项工作中,我们表明,直接访问本机的CrO $_2$的电子结构,可以实现与软X射线角分辨光电子能谱,其大的探测深度穿透Cr $_2$ O $_3$层。首次测量了CrO $_2$的电子色散和费米面,这是解决该材料中电子关联性质长期争论的基本前提。由于密度泛函理论增强了一个相对较弱的本地库仑排斥给出了详尽的描述,我们的光谱数据,我们排除了强耦合理论的氧化铬$_2$。正确解释我们的实验数据中的价带色散的关键是理解的CrO $_2$的非平凡的光谱响应所造成的光电子发射过程中的干扰效应源于非对称空间群的金红石晶体结构的氧化铬$_2$。

英文摘要:

Chromium dioxide CrO$_2$ belongs to a class of materials called ferromagnetic half-metals, whose peculiar aspect is to act as a metal in one spin orientation and as semiconductor or insulator in the opposite one. Despite numerous experimental and theoretical studies motivated by technologically important applications of this material in spintronics, its fundamental properties such as momentum resolved electron dispersions and Fermi surface have so far remained experimentally inaccessible due to metastability of its surface that instantly reduces to amorphous Cr$_2$O$_3$. In this work, we demonstrate that direct access to the native electronic structure of CrO$_2$ can be achieved with soft-X-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy whose large probing depth penetrates through the Cr$_2$O$_3$ layer. For the first time the electronic dispersions and Fermi surface of CrO$_2$ are measured, which are fundamental prerequisites to solve the long debate on the nature of electronic correlations in this material. Since density functional theory augmented by a relatively weak local Coulomb repulsion gives an exhaustive description of our spectroscopic data, we rule out strong-coupling theories of CrO$_2$. Crucial for the correct interpretation of our experimental data in terms of the valence band dispersions is the understanding of a non-trivial spectral response of CrO$_2$ caused by interference effects in the photoemission process originating from the non-symmorphic space group of the rutile crystal structure of CrO$_2$.

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