From antiferromagnetic insulator to correlated metal in pressurized and doped LaMnPO

Details From antiferromagnetic insulator to correlated metal in pressurized and doped LaMnPO From antiferromagnetic insulator to correlated metal in pressurized and doped LaMnPO

2011-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/1110.5938v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 5 figures

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Widespread adoption of superconducting technologies requires the discovery of new materials with enhanced properties, especially higher superconducting transition temperatures T$_{c}$. The unexpected discovery of high T$_{c}$ superconductivity in cuprates and in materials as diverse as heavy fermions, organic conductors, and endohedrally-doped fullerenes suggests that the highest T$_{c}$s occur when pressure or doping transform the localized and moment-bearing electrons in antiferromagnetic insulators into itinerant and weakly magnetic metals. The absence of this delocalization transition in Fe-based superconductors may limit their T$_{c}$s, but even larger T$_{c}$s may be possible in their isostructural Mn analogs, which are antiferromagnetic insulators like the cuprates. It is generally believed that prohibitively large pressures would be required to suppress the strong Hund's rule coupling in these Mn-based compounds, collapsing the insulating gap and enabling superconductivity. Indeed, no Mn-based compounds are known to be superconductors. The electronic structure calculations and x-ray diffraction measurements presented here challenge these long held beliefs, finding that only modest pressures are required to transform LaMnPO, isostructural to superconducting host LaFeAsO, from an insulating tetragonal structure with a large Mn moment to a gapless orthorhombic structure with a small Mn moment. Proximity to this electronic delocalization transition in LaMnPO results in a highly interacting metallic state, the familiar breeding ground of superconductivity.

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