Tunable metal-insulator transition, Rashba effect and Weyl Fermions in a relativistic charge-ordered ferroelectric oxide

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	Tunable metal-insulator transition, Rashba effect and Weyl Fermions in a relativistic charge-ordered ferroelectric oxide
	He, JG; Di Sante, D; Li, RH; Chen, XQ; Rondinelli, JM; Franchini, C; Rondinelli, JM (reprint author), Northwestern Univ, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Evanston, IL 60208 USA.; Franchini, C (reprint author), Univ Vienna, Fac Phys, A-1080 Vienna, Austria.; Franchini, C (reprint author), Univ Vienna, Ctr Computat Mat Sci, A-1080 Vienna, Austria.; Chen, XQ (reprint author), Univ Sci & Technol China, Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Met Res, Sch Mat Sci & Engn,Shenyang Natl Lab Mat Sci, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China.
	2018-02-05
发表期刊	NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN	2041-1723
卷号	9 页码:-
摘要	Controllable metal-insulator transitions (MIT), Rashba-Dresselhaus (RD) spin splitting, and Weyl semimetals are promising schemes for realizing processing devices. Complex oxides are a desirable materials platform for such devices, as they host delicate and tunable charge, spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedoms. Here, using first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis, we identify an electric-field tunable MIT, RD effect, and Weyl semimetal in a known, charge-ordered, and polar relativistic oxide Ag2BiO3 at room temperature. Remarkably, a centrosymmetric BiO6 octahedral-breathing distortion induces a sizable spontaneous ferroelectric polarization through Bi3+/Bi5+ charge disproportionation, which stabilizes simultaneously the insulating phase. The continuous attenuation of the Bi3+/Bi5+ disproportionation obtained by applying an external electric field reduces the band gap and RD spin splitting and drives the phase transition from a ferroelectric RD insulator to a paraelectric Dirac semimetal, through a topological Weyl semimetal intermediate state. These findings suggest that Ag2BiO3 is a promising material for spin-orbitonic applications.; Controllable metal-insulator transitions (MIT), Rashba-Dresselhaus (RD) spin splitting, and Weyl semimetals are promising schemes for realizing processing devices. Complex oxides are a desirable materials platform for such devices, as they host delicate and tunable charge, spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedoms. Here, using first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis, we identify an electric-field tunable MIT, RD effect, and Weyl semimetal in a known, charge-ordered, and polar relativistic oxide Ag2BiO3 at room temperature. Remarkably, a centrosymmetric BiO6 octahedral-breathing distortion induces a sizable spontaneous ferroelectric polarization through Bi3+/Bi5+ charge disproportionation, which stabilizes simultaneously the insulating phase. The continuous attenuation of the Bi3+/Bi5+ disproportionation obtained by applying an external electric field reduces the band gap and RD spin splitting and drives the phase transition from a ferroelectric RD insulator to a paraelectric Dirac semimetal, through a topological Weyl semimetal intermediate state. These findings suggest that Ag2BiO3 is a promising material for spin-orbitonic applications.
部门归属	[he, jiangang ; rondinelli, james m.] northwestern univ, dept mat sci & engn, evanston, il 60208 usa ; [he, jiangang ; franchini, cesare] univ vienna, fac phys, a-1080 vienna, austria ; [he, jiangang ; franchini, cesare] univ vienna, ctr computat mat sci, a-1080 vienna, austria ; [di sante, domenico] univ wurzburg, inst theoret phys & astrophys, hubland campus sud, d-97074 wurzburg, germany ; [li, ronghan ; chen, xing-qiu] univ sci & technol china, chinese acad sci, inst met res, sch mat sci & engn,shenyang natl lab mat sci, shenyang 110016, peoples r china
关键词	Augmented-wave Method Wannier Functions States Bulk Semiconductors Perovskites Temperature Ag2bio3 Plane Bands
学科领域	Multidisciplinary Sciences
资助者	FWF project INDOX [I1490-N19]; National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [51725103]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [51671193, 51474202]; German Research Foundation (DFG) [SFB 1170]; Army Research Office [W911NF-15-1-0017]; [TZ2016004]
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.imr.ac.cn/handle/321006/79523
专题	中国科学院金属研究所
通讯作者	Rondinelli, JM (reprint author), Northwestern Univ, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Evanston, IL 60208 USA.; Franchini, C (reprint author), Univ Vienna, Fac Phys, A-1080 Vienna, Austria.; Franchini, C (reprint author), Univ Vienna, Ctr Computat Mat Sci, A-1080 Vienna, Austria.; Chen, XQ (reprint author), Univ Sci & Technol China, Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Met Res, Sch Mat Sci & Engn,Shenyang Natl Lab Mat Sci, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	He, JG,Di Sante, D,Li, RH,et al. Tunable metal-insulator transition, Rashba effect and Weyl Fermions in a relativistic charge-ordered ferroelectric oxide[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2018,9:-.
APA	He, JG.,Di Sante, D.,Li, RH.,Chen, XQ.,Rondinelli, JM.,...&Chen, XQ .(2018).Tunable metal-insulator transition, Rashba effect and Weyl Fermions in a relativistic charge-ordered ferroelectric oxide.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,9,-.
MLA	He, JG,et al."Tunable metal-insulator transition, Rashba effect and Weyl Fermions in a relativistic charge-ordered ferroelectric oxide".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 9(2018):-.