Interface-induced magnetic polar metal phase in complex oxides

Meng Meng; Zhen Wang; Aafreen Fathima; Saurabh Ghosh; Mohammad Saghayezhian; Joel Taylor; Rongying Jin; Yimei Zhu; Sokrates T. Pantelides; Jiandi Zhang; E. W. Plummer; Hangwen Guo

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13270-7

Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Interface-induced magnetic polar metal phase in complex oxides

Meng Meng,
Zhen Wang,
Aafreen Fathima,
Saurabh Ghosh,
Mohammad Saghayezhian,
Joel Taylor,
Rongying Jin,
Yimei Zhu,
Sokrates T. Pantelides,
Jiandi Zhang,
E. W. Plummer,
Hangwen Guo

Affiliations

Meng Meng: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University
Zhen Wang: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University
Aafreen Fathima: Department of Physics & Nanotechnology and SRM Research Institute, SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Saurabh Ghosh: Department of Physics & Nanotechnology and SRM Research Institute, SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Mohammad Saghayezhian: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University
Joel Taylor: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University
Rongying Jin: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University
Yimei Zhu: Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Sokrates T. Pantelides: Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
Jiandi Zhang: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University
E. W. Plummer: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University
Hangwen Guo: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13270-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Polar metals—metals with polar structural distortions—are known not to be magnetic. Here, the authors demonstrate a magnetic polar metal phase in a BaTiO3/SrRuO3/BaTiO3 heterostructure displaying high conductivity and ferromagnetic ordering with high saturation moment.

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ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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