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25埃的神奇厚度使周期性的金属-绝缘体转变

Magic thickness of 25 Å makes periodic metal-insulator transitions

M. Sakoda, H. Nobukane, S. Shimoda, S. Tanda

摘要:

新的量子现象,包括高温超导性,拓扑性质,电荷/自旋密度波,出现在低维导电材料。可以通过制造具有平坦界面的量子薄膜、量子线或量子点来人工创建低维系统。对强关联电子系统的电子转移化合物进行了实验研究。然而,由于技术上难以精确控制多种元素,人工制造的低维化合物的大多数性质都属于未知领域。在这里,我们表明,非凡的金属-绝缘体的转变,振荡取决于规模发生在CaRuO_3薄膜的厚度约几个单位电池。我们用分子束外延法生长了表面粗糙度控制在199 μ m的高结晶CaRuO_3纳米晶薄膜。我们观察到电阻率以25 Ω的魔厚度振荡,在室温和低温下分别变化3和9个数量级。这些变化比量子尺寸效应大得多。我们也证实了相同的周期性与光电子能谱学通过蚀刻薄膜。考虑到振荡跃迁的大能量、周期性和各向异性,我们认为振荡跃迁起源于波数空间和实空间维数的双重限制所引起的Peierls不稳定性所触发的Mott绝缘的可压缩性.我们已经表明,通过在皮米水平上控制电子相关化合物上的膜厚度来生产新的功能材料的可能性。

英文摘要:

Novel quantum phenomena, including high-temperature superconductivity, topological properties, and charge/spin density waves, appear in low-dimensional conductive materials. It is possible to artificially create low-dimensional systems by fabricating ultrathin films, quantum wires, or quantum dots with flat interfaces. Some experiments have been performed on ultrathin compounds of strongly correlated electron systems. However, since it is technically difficult to control multiple elements precisely, most of the properties of artificially fabricated low-dimensional compounds fall into uncharted territory. Here we show that extraordinary metal-insulator transitions that oscillate depending on the scale occur in CaRuO_3 films with a thickness of around several unit cells. We grow high-crystalline CaRuO_3 ultrathin films, whose surface roughness is controlled at 199 pm, by molecular beam epitaxy. We observe that resistivity oscillates with a magic thickness of 25 Å, which changes by 3 and 9 orders of magnitude at room temperature and at low temperature, respectively. These changes are much larger than quantum size effects. We also confirm the same periodicity with photoelectron spectroscopy by etching the ultrathin film. Considering the large energy, periodicity and anisotropy, we conclude that the oscillating transitions originate from the commensurability of Mott insulation triggered by Peierls instability arising from a dual restriction on the dimensions in wavenumber space and real space. We have shown the possibility of producing new functional materials by controlling film thickness on electron correlated compounds at the picometer level.

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