Probing electronic and magnetic transitions of short periodic nickelate superlattices using synchrotron x-ray

Abstract

Transition metal based oxide heterostructures exhibit diverse emergent phenomena e.g. two dimensional electron gas, superconductivity, non-collinear magnetic phase, ferroelectricity, polar vortices, topological Hall effect etc., which are absent in the constituent bulk oxides. The microscopic understandings of these properties in such nanometer thick materials are extremely challenging. Synchrotron x-ray based techniques such as x-ray diffraction, x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), resonant x-ray scattering (RXS), resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS), x-ray photoemission spectroscopy, etc. are essential to elucidating the response of lattice, charge, orbital, and spin degrees of freedoms to the heterostructuring. As a prototypical case of complex behavior, rare-earth nickelates (RENiO3 with RE=La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Lu) based thin films and heterostructures have been investigated quite extensively in recent years. An extensive body of literature about these systems exists and for an overview of the field, we refer the interested readers to the recent reviews Annual Review of Materials Research 46, 305 (2016) and Reports on Progress in Physics 81, 046501 (2018). In the present article, we give a brief review that concentrates on the use of synchrotron based techniques to investigate a specific set of EuNiO3/LaNiO3 superlattices, specifically designed to solve a long-standing puzzle about the origin of simultaneous electronic, magnetic and structural transitions of the RENiO3 series.

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