Probing momentum-dependent scattering in uniaxially stressed Sr2RuO4 through the Hall effect
Date
17/07/2023Metadata
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The largest Fermi surface sheet of the correlated metal Sr2RuO4 can be driven through a Lifshitz transition between an electronlike and an open geometry by uniaxial stress applied along the [100] lattice direction. Here, we investigate the effect of this transition on the longitudinal resistivity ρxx and the Hall coefficient RH. ρxx(T), when Sr2RuO4 is tuned to this transition, is found to have a T2logT form, as expected for a Fermi liquid tuned to a Lifshitz transition. RH is found to become more negative as the Fermi surface transitions from an electronlike to an open geometry, opposite to general expectations from this change in topology. The magnitude of the change in RH implies that scattering changes throughout the Brillouin zone, not just at the point in k space where the transition occurs. In a model of orbital-dependent scattering, the electron-electron scattering rate on sections of Fermi surface with xy orbital weight is found to decrease dramatically.
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Yang , P-Y , Noad , H M L , Barber , M E , Kikugawa , N , Sokolov , D A , Mackenzie , A P & Hicks , C W 2023 , ' Probing momentum-dependent scattering in uniaxially stressed Sr 2 RuO 4 through the Hall effect ' , Physical Review Letters , vol. 131 , no. 3 , 036301 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.036301
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Physical Review Letters
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Peer reviewed
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0031-9007Type
Journal article
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Funding: The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Max Planck Society. A. P. M. and C. W. H. acknowledge the financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—TRR 288–422213477 (project A10). N. K. is supported by a KAKENHI Grants-in-Aids for Scientific Research (Grants No. 17H06136, No. 18K04715, and No. 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). H. M. L. N. acknowledges support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through a Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers. Research in Dresden benefits from the environment provided by the DFG Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat (EXC 2147, project ID 390858940).Collections
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