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arXiv 2004.08527cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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通过机器学习发现的二维铁电金属大家族

Large Family of Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric Metals Discovered via Machine Learning

Xing-Yu Ma, Hou-Yi Lyu, Kuan-Rong Hao, Yi-Ming Zhao, Xiaofeng Qian, Qing-Bo Yan, Gang Su

摘要:

铁电性和金属性通常被认为是不共存的,因为导电电子会屏蔽静态的内部电场。1965年,Anderson和Blount提出了“铁电金属”的概念,但直到最近才报道了非常罕见的铁电金属。在这里,通过将高通量从头计算和数据驱动的机器学习方法与新的基于电子轨道的描述符相结合,我们系统地研究了一个大家族(2,964)的二维(2D)磷酸盐,并发现了60个具有面外极化的稳定铁电体,包括16种铁电金属和44种包含7种多铁性的铁电半导体。铁电性起源于双金属原子的反向位移引起的自发对称性破缺,全d轨道钴金属元素引起的位移和极化比其他元素大。对于2D铁电金属,没有自旋极化的每个晶胞中的奇数电子可能导致费米能级附近的半充满能带,并负责金属性。结果表明,导电电子主要在二维层的单面上运动,而离子和电对极化的贡献都来自另一面,并垂直于上述层,从而导致金属性和铁电性共存。基于铁电金属的范德华异质结构可以改变肖特基势垒高度或肖特基欧姆接触类型,并引起其垂直输运性质的显著变化。我们的工作极大地扩展了二维铁电金属的家族,并将刺激对二维铁电金属的进一步探索。

英文摘要:

Ferroelectricity and metallicity are usually believed not to coexist because conducting electrons would screen out static internal electric fields. In 1965, Anderson and Blount proposed the concept of 'ferroelectric metal', however, it is only until recently that very rare ferroelectric metals were reported. Here, by combining high-throughput ab initio calculations and data-driven machine learning method with new electronic orbital based descriptors, we systematically investigated a large family (2,964) of two-dimensional (2D) bimetal phosphates, and discovered 60 stable ferroelectrics with out-of-plane polarization, including 16 ferroelectric metals and 44 ferroelectric semiconductors that contain seven multiferroics. The ferroelectricity origins from spontaneous symmetry breaking induced by the opposite displacements of bimetal atoms, and the full-d-orbital coinage metal elements cause larger displacements and polarization than other elements. For 2D ferroelectric metals, the odd electrons per unit cell without spin polarization may lead to a half-filled energy band around Fermi level and is responsible for the metallicity. It is revealed that the conducting electrons mainly move on a single-side surface of the 2D layer, while both the ionic and electric contributions to polarization come from the other side and are vertical to the above layer, thereby causing the coexistence of metallicity and ferroelectricity. Van der Waals heterostructures based on ferroelectric metals may enable the change of Schottky barrier height or the Schottky-Ohmic contact type and induce a dramatic change of their vertical transport properties. Our work greatly expands the family of 2D ferroelectric metals and will spur further exploration of 2D ferroelectric metals.

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