Imaging the itinerant-to-localized transmutation of electrons across the metal-to-insulator transition in V${}_2$O${}_3$

Maximilian Thees, Min-Han Lee, Rosa Luca Bouwmeester +14

In solids, strong repulsion between electrons can inhibit their movement and result in a "Mott" metal-to-insulator transition (MIT), a fundamental phenomenon whose understanding ha…