Pressure-induced metallization and structural phase transition of the Mott-Hubbard insulator TiOBr

Details Pressure-induced metallization and structural phase transition of the Mott-Hubbard insulator TiOBr Pressure-induced metallization and structural phase transition of the Mott-Hubbard insulator TiOBr

2007-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/0710.4126v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.241101

We investigated the pressure-dependent optical response of the low-dimensional Mott-Hubbard insulator TiOBr by transmittance and reflectance measurements in the infrared and visible frequency range. A suppression of the transmittance above a critical pressure and a concomitant increase of the reflectance are observed, suggesting a pressure-induced metallization of TiOBr. The metallic phase of TiOBr at high pressure is confirmed by the presence of additional excitations extending down to the far-infrared range. The pressure-induced metallization coincides with a structural phase transition, according to the results of x-ray powder diffraction experiments under pressure.

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