Orbital-Assisted Metal-Insulator Transition in VO2

Physical Review Letters Volume 95 Issue 19 published_at 2005-11-04
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Title ( eng )
Orbital-Assisted Metal-Insulator Transition in VO2
Creator
Haverkort M.W.
Hu Z.
Reichelt W.
Streltsov S.V.
Korotin M.A.
Anisimov V.I.
Hsieh H.H.
Lin H.-J.
Chen C.T.
Khomskii D.I.
Tjeng L.H.
Source Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume 95
Issue 19
Abstract
We found direct experimental evidence for an orbital switching in the V 3d states across the metalinsulator transition in VO2. We have used soft-x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the V L2;3 edges as a sensitive local probe and have determined quantitatively the orbital polarizations. These results strongly suggest that, in going from the metallic to the insulating state, the orbital occupation changes in a manner that charge fluctuations and effective bandwidths are reduced, that the system becomes more one dimensional and more susceptible to a Peierls-like transition, and that the required massive orbital switching can only be made if the system is close to a Mott insulating regime.
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Date of Issued 2005-11-04
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Copyright (c) 2005 American Physical Society.
Publish Type Version of Record
Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 0031-9007
[DOI] 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.196404
[NCID] AA00773679
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.196404