Hierarchy of Lifshitz transitions in the surface electronic structure of Sr2RuO4 under uniaxial compression
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03/03/2023Author
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EP/T02108X/1
EP/R031924/1
714193
2016-006
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We report the evolution of the electronic structure at the surface of the layered perovskite Sr2RuO4 under large in-plane uniaxial compression, leading to anisotropic B1g strains of εxx − εyy = −0.9 ± 0.1%. From angle-resolved photoemission, we show how this drives a sequence of Lifshitz transitions, reshaping the low-energy electronic structure and the rich spectrum of van Hove singularities that the surface layer of Sr2RuO4 hosts. From comparison to tight-binding modelling, we find that the strain is accommodated predominantly by bond-length changes rather than modifications of octahedral tilt and rotation angles. Our study sheds new light on the nature of structural distortions at oxide surfaces, and how targeted control of these can be used to tune density of states singularities to the Fermi level, in turn paving the way to the possible realisation of rich collective states at the Sr2RuO4 surface.
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Abarca Morales , E , Siemann , G-R , Zivanovic , A , Murgatroyd , P , Markovic , I , Edwards , B , Hooley , C , Sokolov , D , Kikugawa , N , Cacho , C , Watson , M , Kim , T , Hicks , C W , Mackenzie , A & King , P 2023 , ' Hierarchy of Lifshitz transitions in the surface electronic structure of Sr 2 RuO 4 under uniaxial compression ' , Physical Review Letters , vol. 130 , no. 9 , 096401 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.096401
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Physical Review Letters
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Copyright © 2023 the Authors. This work has been made available online in accordance with the Rights Retention Strategy This accepted manuscript is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The final published version of this work is available at https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/1d07aYd1Hc213a95a00261c77f48ade3161f83608.
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Funding: We gratefully acknowledge support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant Nos. EP/T02108X/1 and EP/R031924/1), the European Research Council (through the QUESTDO project, 714193), and the Leverhulme Trust (Grant No. RL-2016-006). E.A.M., A.Z., and I.M. gratefully acknowledge studentship support from the International Max-Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials. N.K. is supported by a KAKENHI Grants-in-Aids for Scientific Research (Grant Nos.18K04715, and 21H01033), and Core-to-Core Program (No. JPJSCCA20170002) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and by a JST-Mirai Program (Grant No. JPMJMI18A3). APM and CWH acknowledge support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - TRR 435 288 - 422213477 (project A10). We thank Diamond Light Source for access to Beamline I05 (Proposals SI27471 and SI28412), which contributed to the results presented here.Collections
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