Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2002-04-10
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
10.1143/JPSJ.71.2082
In order to explore the origin of the Metal-Insulator (M-I) transition, the precise crystal structures of the hole-doped Mott insulator system, Y1-XCaXTiO3 (x=0.37, 0.39 and 0.41), are studied for the temperature range between 20K and 300K by the synchrotron radiation (SR) X-ray powder diffraction. For both Y0.63Ca0.37TiO3 and Y0.61Ca0.39TiO3 compositions, the orthorhombic (Pbnm) - monoclinic (P21/n) structural phase transition occurs at around 230K, which is much higher than their own M-I transition temperatures, i.e. 60K and 130K, respectively. For these compositions, the significant phase separation (low-temperature orthorhombic + monoclinic) is also found in the vicinity of the M-I transition temperature. On the other hand, Y0.59Ca0.41TiO3, which dose not exhibit M-I transition and preserve a metallic behavior down to 1.5K, is in two phases state from 20K to 300K. It is concluded that the existence of the phase separation causes the M-I transition in Y1-xCaxTiO3, and the low-temperature orthorhombic phase contributes to the metallic property of this system.
Iga Fumitoshi
Kato Kazuhiro
Nakano Takanori
Nishibori Eiji
Sakata Makoto
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