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VO2和NbO2外延层中应变和电子相关的协同效应

Cooperative Effects of Strain and Electron Correlation in Epitaxial VO2 and NbO2

Wei-Cheng Lee, Matthew J. Wahila, Shantanu Mukherjee, Christopher N. Singh, Tyler Eustance, Anna Regoutz, H. Paik, Jos E. Boschker, Fanny Rodolakis, Tien-Lin Le… 展开作者

Wei-Cheng Lee, Matthew J. Wahila, Shantanu Mukherjee, Christopher N. Singh, Tyler Eustance, Anna Regoutz, H. Paik, Jos E. Boschker, Fanny Rodolakis, Tien-Lin Lee, D. G. Schlom, Louis F. J. Piper

摘要:

采用密度泛函理论结合从自旋方法(DFT+SS)研究了金红石相外延VO $_2$薄膜的电子结构.在DFT-SS中,多轨道Hubbard相互作用被添加到DFT拟合的紧束缚模型中,并且我们采用从自旋方法来处理电子相关性。我们发现,而沿金红石$c$轴拉伸系统的能带结构有利于各向异性的轨道填充,电子相关有利于$t_{2g}$轨道之间的电子填充。这两种不同的影响合作诱导有趣的轨道依赖的电子占领和光谱权重的重新分配,这推动了应变VO $_2$向轨道选择性莫特转变(OSMT)。模拟的单粒子谱函数直接比较外延10 nm VO $_2$ /TiO $_2$(001)和(100)应变取向的VL边共振X射线光电子能谱。极好的协议之间观察到的模拟和实验数据的应变引起的演变较低的哈伯德带。在与VO $_2$相似的应变条件下对金红石型NbO $_2$进行了模拟,我们预测在金红石型NbO $_2$中不会发生OSMT。我们的研究结果表明,VO $_2$中的电子相关是重要的,甚至可以在Peierls不稳定性发生之前在金红石相中进行调制。

英文摘要:

We investigate the electronic structure of the epitaxial VO$_2$ films in the rutile phase using the density functional theory combined with the slave spin method (DFT+SS). In DFT-SS, the multiorbital Hubbard interactions are added to a DFT-fit tight-binding model, and we employ the slave-spin method to treat the electron correlation. We find that while stretching the system along the rutile $c$-axis results in a band structure favoring an anisotropic orbital fillings, the electron correlation favors an equal electron filling among $t_{2g}$ orbitals. These two distinct effects cooperatively induce interesting orbital-dependent redistributions of the electron occupations and the spectral weights, which pushes the strained VO$_2$ toward an orbital selective Mott transition (OSMT). The simulated single-particle spectral functions are directly compared to V L-edge resonant X-ray photoemission spectroscopy of epitaxial 10 nm VO$_2$/TiO$_2$ (001) and (100) strain orientations. Excellent agreement is observed between the simulations and experimental data regarding the strain-induced evolution of the lower Hubbard band. Simulations of rutile NbO$_2$ under similar strain conditions as VO$_2$ are performed, and we predict that OSMT will not occur in rutile NbO$_2$. Our results indicates that the electron correlation in VO$_2$ is important and can be modulated even in the rutile phase before the Peierls instability sets in.

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