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负电荷转移稀土镍酸盐中的基态氧空穴和金属-绝缘体转变

Ground state oxygen holes and the metal-insulator transition in the negative charge transfer rare-earth nickelates

Valentina Bisogni, Sara Catalano, Robert J. Green, Marta Gibert, Raoul Scherwitzl, Yaobo Huang, Vladimir N. Strocov, Pavlo Zubko, Shadi Balandeh, Jean-Marc Tris… 展开作者

Valentina Bisogni, Sara Catalano, Robert J. Green, Marta Gibert, Raoul Scherwitzl, Yaobo Huang, Vladimir N. Strocov, Pavlo Zubko, Shadi Balandeh, Jean-Marc Triscone, George Sawatzky, Thorsten Schmitt

摘要:

稀土钙钛矿型镍酸盐的金属-绝缘体转变和有趣的物理性质近年来引起了人们的广泛关注。然而,对这些材料的全面理解仍然是难以捉摸的。在这里,以NdNiO 3薄膜作为一个代表性的例子,我们利用X射线吸收和共振非弹性X射线散射(RIXS)光谱的组合来解决稀土镍酸盐的复杂的电子结构的重要方面。在RIXS光谱中观察到的束缚和连续激发的不寻常的共存提供了强有力的证据,这些材料的基态中的氧2 p空穴的丰度。利用团簇计算和安德森杂质模型解释,我们表明,这些不同的光谱特征来自Ni 3d 8配置以及氧2 p价带中的空穴,证实了这些材料不服从传统的正电荷转移图片,而是表现出负电荷转移能量的建议,与最近的模型解释的金属到绝缘体的转变,在键的反折。

英文摘要:

The metal-insulator transitions and the intriguing physical properties of rare-earth perovskite nickelates have attracted considerable attention in recent years. Nonetheless, a complete understanding of these materials remains elusive. Here, taking a NdNiO3 thin film as a representative example, we utilize a combination of x-ray absorption and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) spectroscopies to resolve important aspects of the complex electronic structure of the rare-earth nickelates. The unusual coexistence of bound and continuum excitations observed in the RIXS spectra provides strong evidence for the abundance of oxygen 2p holes in the ground state of these materials. Using cluster calculations and Anderson impurity model interpretation, we show that these distinct spectral signatures arise from a Ni 3d8 configuration along with holes in the oxygen 2p valence band, confirming suggestions that these materials do not obey a conventional positive charge-transfer picture, but instead exhibit a negative charge-transfer energy, in line with recent models interpreting the metal to insulator transition in terms of bond disproportionation.

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