Quantitative determination of bond order and lattice distortions in nickel oxide heterostructures by resonant x-ray scattering

2016/04/15 by Yi Lu, Y. Lu, A. Frano +15 · 2 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Atomic physics #Chemistry #Condensed matter physics #Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides #Ground state #Heterojunction #Lanio #Lattice (music) #Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials #Materials science #Metallurgy #Molecular physics #Nickel #Nickel oxide #Optics #Optoelectronics #Oxide #Physics #Scattering #cond-mat.str-el

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.93.165121

published as Phys. Rev. B 93, 165121 (2016)

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Abstract

Resonant x-ray scattering is used to definitively show that a pure spin density wave state is the ground state in ultrathin LaNiO₃ layers sandwiched between LAAlO₃ layers. This result is also shown to be in agreement with first-principles calculations.

Citations

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