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层状铱酸盐的量子临界性

Quantum Criticality in a Layered Iridate

Kousik Samanta, Jean C. Souza, Danilo Rigitano, Adimir I. Morales, Pascoal G. Pagliuso, Eduardo Granado

摘要:

铱酸盐为研究强自旋轨道耦合下的关联电子提供了肥沃的土壤。使这些系统接近金属-绝缘体量子相变是一个挑战,必须满足访问量子临界波动与电荷和自旋轨道自由度。在这里,电传输和拉曼散射测量提供的证据表明,金属-绝缘体量子临界点,有效地达到5%的钴掺杂的Sr $_2$ IrO $_4$具有高的结构质量。的直流电导率示出了一个线性的温度依赖性,这是成功地捕获的模型,涉及一个Co受体水平的费米能量,逐渐人口在有限的温度下,创建热激活的空穴在$J_{\text {eff}}=1/2$较低的哈伯德带。如此形成的量子临界涨落是异常沉重的,由此产生的电子连续耦合与光学声子在所有温度下。在Co掺杂下,磁有序和赝自旋-声子耦合得以保持。这项工作将量子相变、虹彩酸盐和重费米子物理带到了同一个舞台。

英文摘要:

Iridates provide a fertile ground to investigate correlated electrons in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling. Bringing these systems to the proximity of a metal-insulator quantum phase transition is a challenge that must be met to access quantum critical fluctuations with charge and spin-orbital degrees of freedom. Here, electrical transport and Raman scattering measurements provide evidence that a metal-insulator quantum critical point is effectively reached in 5 % Co-doped Sr$_2$IrO$_4$ with high structural quality. The dc-electrical conductivity shows a linear temperature dependence that is successfully captured by a model involving a Co acceptor level at the Fermi energy that becomes gradually populated at finite temperatures, creating thermally-activated holes in the $J_{\text {eff}}=1/2$ lower Hubbard band. The so-formed quantum critical fluctuations are exceptionally heavy and the resulting electronic continuum couples with an optical phonon at all temperatures. The magnetic order and pseudospin-phonon coupling are preserved under the Co doping. This work brings quantum phase transitions, iridates and heavy-fermion physics to the same arena.

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