Effect of confinement and Coulomb interactions on the electronic structure of (111) LaAlO/SrTiO interface
arXiv:2302.10209 · doi:10.3390/nano13050819
Abstract
A tight binding supercell approach is used for the calculation of the electronic structure of the (111) LaAlO/SrTiO interface. The confinement potential at the interface is evaluated solving a discrete Poisson equation by means of an iterative method. In addition to the effect of the confinement, local Hubbard electron-electron terms are included at mean-field level within a fully self-consistent procedure. The calculation carefully describes how the two-dimensional electron gas arises from the quantum confinement of electrons near the interface due to band bending potential. The resulting electronic sub-bands and Fermi surfaces show full agreement with the electronic structure determined by angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy experiments. In particular, it is analyzed how the effect of local Hubbard interactions changes the density distribution over the layers from the interface to the bulk. Interestingly, the two-dimensional electron gas at interface is not depleted by local Hubbard interactions which indeed induce an enhancement of the electron density between the first layers and the bulk.
14 pages, 9 figures
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