Multilayer engineering of CaVO thin films with SrTiO and LaAlO from DFT+DMFT
arXiv:2005.11809 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.125002
Abstract
In this paper we use density functional theory combined with dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT) to study interface effects between thin films of the correlated metal CaVO and the two typical substrate materials SrTiO and LaAlO. We find that the CaVO/SrTiO interface has only a marginal influence on the CaVO thin film, with the dominant effect being the (bulklike) epitaxial strain imposed by the large lattice mismatch, rendering the CaVO film insulating due to the enhanced orbital polarization related to the strong level splitting between the t orbitals. In contrast, at the polar CaVO/LaAlO interface, the presence of the interface can have a huge effect on the thin film properties, depending both on the specific interface termination as well as the specific boundary conditions imposed by the multilayer geometry. We compare three different approaches to model the interface between the correlated metal CaVO and the band insulator LaAlO, which all impose a different set of (electrostatic) boundary conditions on the electronic structure. The spectral properties obtained from our calculations reveal a strong influence of the supercell geometry, ranging from bulklike to highly doped and structurally distorted phases, indicating a potential tunability of the interfacial properties via multilayer engineering.
arXiv comment13 pages, 10 figures
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