Non-congruence of thermally driven structural and electronic transition in VO2

Details Non-congruence of thermally driven structural and electronic transition in VO2 Non-congruence of thermally driven structural and electronic transition in VO2

2010-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/1003.3876v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

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Coupled structural and electronic phase transitions underlie the multifunctional properties of strongly-correlated materials. For example, colossal magnetoresistance1,2 in manganites involves phase transition from paramagnetic insulator to ferromagnetic metal linked to a structural Jahn-Teller distortion3. Vanadium dioxide (VO2) likewise exhibits an insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) at ~67oC with abrupt changes in transport and optical properties and coupled to a structural phase transition (SPT) from monoclinic to tetragonal4. The IMT and SPT hystereses are signatures of first-order phase transition tracking the nucleation to stabilization of a new phase. Here we have for the first time measured independently the IMT and SPT hystereses in epitaxial VO2 films, and shown that the hystereses are not congruent. From the measured volume fractions of the two phases in the region of strong correlation, we have computed the evolving dielectric function under an effective-medium approximation. But the computed dielectric functions could not reproduce the measured IMT, implying that there is a strongly correlated metallic phase that is not in the stable rutile structure, consistent with Qazilbash et al5. Search for a corresponding macroscopic structural intermediate also yielded negative result.

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