In-situ strain-tuning of the metal-insulator-transition of Ca${}_2$RuO${}_4$ in angle-resolved photoemission experiments

Abstract

We report the evolution of the $k$-space electronic structure of lightly doped bulk Ca${}_2$RuO${}_4$ with uniaxial strain. Using ultrathin plate-like crystals, we achieve strain levels up to $-4.1\%$, sufficient to suppress the Mott phase and access the previously unexplored metallic state at low temperature. Angle-resolved photoemission experiments performed while tuning the uniaxial strain reveal that metallicity emerges from a marked redistribution of charge within the Ru $t_{2g}$ shell, accompanied by a sudden collapse of the spectral weight in the lower Hubbard band and the emergence of a well defined Fermi surface which is devoid of pseudogaps. Our results highlight the profound roles of lattice energetics and of the multiorbital nature of Ca${}_2$RuO${}_4$ in this archetypal Mott transition and open new perspectives for spectroscopic measurements.

arXiv commentTo appear in Nature Communications

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