Coupling Charge and Topological Reconstructions at Polar Oxide Interfaces
T. C. van Thiel, W. Brzezicki, C. Autieri, J. R. Hortensius, D. Afanasiev, N. Gauquelin, D. Jannis, N. Janssen, D. J. Groenendijk, J. Fatermans, S. Van Aert, J. Verbeeck, M. Cuoco, and A. D. Caviglia
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 127202 (2021)
In oxide heterostructures, different materials are integrated into a single artificial crystal, resulting in a breaking of inversion symmetry across the heterointerfaces. A notable example is the interface…
Coherent spin-wave transport in an antiferromagnet
J. R. Hortensius, D. Afanasiev, M. Matthiesen, R. Leenders, R. Citro, A. V. Kimel, R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, B. A. Ivanov & A. D. Caviglia
Nature Physics volume 17, pages 1001–1006 (2021)
Magnonics is a research field complementary to spintronics, in which the quanta of spin waves (magnons) replace electrons as information carriers, promising lower dissipation. The development of ultrafast,…
Controlling the anisotropy of a van der Waals antiferromagnet with light
Afanasiev, Dmytro
Hortensius, Jorrit R.
Matthiesen, Mattias
Mañas-Valero, Samuel
Šiškins, Makars
Lee, Martin
Lesne, Edouard
van der Zant, Herre S. J.
Steeneken, Peter G.
Ivanov, Boris A.
Coronado, Eugenio
Caviglia, Andrea
Science advances. 2021, vol. 7, no. 23
Van der Waals magnets provide an ideal playground to explore the fundamentals of low-dimensional magnetism and open opportunities for ultrathin spin-processing devices. The Mermin-Wagner theorem dictates that …
The quantum metric of electrons with spin-momentum locking
Giacomo Sala, Maria Teresa Mercaldo, Klevis Domi, Stefano Gariglio, Mario Cuoco, Carmine Ortix, Andrea D. Caviglia
Curvature-Controlled Polarization in Adaptive Ferroelectric Membranes
Greta Segantini, Ludovica Tovaglieri, Chang Jae Roh, Chih-Ying Hsu, Seongwoo Cho, Ralph Bulanadi, Petr Ondrejkovic, Pavel Marton, Jirka Hlinka, Stefano Gariglio, Duncan T.L. Alexander, Patrycja Paruch, Jean-Marc Triscone, Céline Lichtensteiger, Andrea D. Caviglia
High-field superconductivity from atomic-scale confinement and spin-orbit coupling at (111)LaAlO3/KTaO3 interfaces
Ulderico Filippozzi, Graham Kimbell, Davide Pizzirani, Siobhan McKeown Walker, Chiara Cocchi, Stefano Gariglio, Marc Gabay, Steffen Wiedmann, Andrea D. Caviglia
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Designing spin and orbital sources of Berry curvature at oxide interfaces
Edouard Lesne, Yildiz G. Saǧlam, Raffaele Battilomo, Maria Teresa Mercaldo, Thierry C. van Thiel, Ulderico Filippozzi, Canio Noce, Mario Cuoco, Gary A. Steele, Carmine Ortix and Andrea Caviglia
Nature materials (2023)
Quantum materials can display physical phenomena rooted in the geometry of electronic wavefunctions. The corresponding geometric tensor is characterized by an emergent field known as the Berry curvature (BC). Large BCs typically arise when electronic states with different spin, orbital or…
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Controlling Magnetism with Light in a Zero Orbital Angular Momentum Antiferromagnet
Mattias Matthiesen, Jorrit R. Hortensius, Samuel Mañas-Valero, Itzik Kapon, Dumitru Dumcenco, Enrico Giannini, Makars Šiškins, Boris A. Ivanov, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Eugenio Coronado, Alexey Kuzmenko, Dmytro Afanasiev and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review letters 130 7, 076702 (2023)
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Electrostatically Driven Polarization Flop and Strain‐Induced Curvature in Free‐Standing Ferroelectric Superlattices
Yaqi Li, Edoardo Zatterin, Michele Conroy, Anastasiia Pylypets, Fedir Borodavka, Alexander Björling, Dirk J. Groenendijk, Edouard Lesne, Adam J. Clancy, Marios Hadjimichael, Demie Kepaptsoglou, Quentin M. Ramasse, Andrea Caviglia, Jiri Hlinka, Ursel Bangert, Steven J. Leake and Pavlo Zubko
Advanced materials, 2106826 (2022)
The combination of strain and electrostatic engineering in epitaxial heterostructures of ferroelectric oxides offers many possibilities for inducing new phases, complex polar topologies, and enhanced electrical properties. However, the dominant effect of substrate clamping can also limit the…
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Gate-tunable pairing channels in superconducting non-centrosymmetric oxides nanowires
Gyanendra Singh, Claudio Guarcello, Edouard Lesne, Dag Winkler, Tord Claeson, Thilo Bauch, Floriana Lombardi, Andrea Caviglia, Roberta Citro, Mario Cuoco and Alexei Kalaboukhov
npj quantum materials 7 1, 2 (2022)
Two-dimensional SrTiO 3 -based interfaces stand out among non-centrosymmetric superconductors due to their intricate interplay of gate-tunable Rashba spin-orbit coupling and multi-orbital electronic occupations, whose combination theoretically prefigures various forms of non-standard…
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Self-Sealing Complex Oxide Resonators
Martin Lee, Martin P. Robin, Ruben H. Guis, Ulderico Filippozzi, Dong Hoon Shin, Thierry C. van Thiel, Stijn P. Paardekooper, Johannes R. Renshof, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Andrea Caviglia, Gerard J. Verbiest and Peter G. Steeneken
Nano letters 22 4, 1475-1482 (2022)
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Ultrathin Piezoelectric Resonators Based on Graphene and Free‐Standing Single‐Crystal BaTiO3
Martin Lee, Johannes R. Renshof, Kasper J. van Zeggeren, Maurits J. A. Houmes, Edouard Lesne, Makars Šiškins, Thierry C. van Thiel, Ruben H. Guis, Mark R. van Blankenstein, Gerard J. Verbiest, Andrea Caviglia, Herre S. J. van der Zant and Peter G. Steeneken
Advanced Materials 34 44, 2204630 (2022)
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Controlling the anisotropy of a van der Waals antiferromagnet with light
Dmytro Afanasiev, Jorrit R. Hortensius, Mattias Matthiesen, Samuel Mañas-Valero, Makars Šiškins, Martin Lee, Edouard Lesne, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Peter G. Steeneken, Boris A. Ivanov, Eugenio Coronado and Andrea Caviglia
Science advances 7 23 (2021)
Ultrafast optical control of magnetic anisotropy in a van der Waals antiferromagnet activates a sub-THz two-dimensional magnon.
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Non-universal current flow near the metal-insulator transition in an oxide interface
Eylon Persky, Naor Vardi, Ana Mafalda R. V. L. Monteiro, Thierry C. van Thiel, Hyeok Yoon, Yanwu Xie, Benoît Fauqué, Andrea Caviglia, Harold Y. Hwang, Kamran Behnia, Jonathan Ruhman and Beena Kalisky
Nature communications 12 1, 3311 (2021)
In systems near phase transitions, macroscopic properties often follow algebraic scaling laws, determined by the dimensionality and the underlying symmetries of the system. The emergence of such universal scaling implies that microscopic details are irrelevant. Here, we locally investigate the…
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Ultrafast control of magnetic interactions via light-driven phonons
D. Afanasiev, J. R. Hortensius, B. A. Ivanov, A. Sasani, E. Bousquet, Y. M. Blanter, R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, A. V. Kimel and Andrea Caviglia
Nature materials 20 5, 607-611 (2021)
Resonant ultrafast excitation of infrared-active phonons is a powerful technique with which to control the electronic properties of materials that leads to remarkable phenomena such as the light-induced enhancement of superconductivity1,2 , switching of ferroelectric polarization3,4 and ultrafast…
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Ultrafast phononic switching of magnetization
A. Stupakiewicz, C. S. Davies, K. Szerenos, D. Afanasiev, K. S. Rabinovich, A. V. Boris, Andrea Caviglia, A. V. Kimel and A. Kirilyuk
Nature physics 17 4, 489-492 (2021)
Identifying efficient pathways to control and modify the order parameter of a macroscopic phase in materials is an important ongoing challenge. One way to do this is via the excitation of a high-frequency mode that couples to the order, and this is the ultimate goal of the field of ultrafast phase…
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Coupling Charge and Topological Reconstructions at Polar Oxide Interfaces
T. C. van Thiel, W. Brzezicki, C. Autieri, J. R. Hortensius, D. Afanasiev, N. Gauquelin, D. Jannis, N. Janssen, D. J. Groenendijk, J. Fatermans, S. Van Aert, J. Verbeeck, M. Cuoco and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review letters 127 12, 127202 (2021)
In oxide heterostructures, different materials are integrated into a single artificial crystal, resulting in a breaking of inversion-symmetry across the heterointerfaces. A notable example is the interface between polar and non-polar materials, where valence discontinuities lead to otherwise…
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Coherent spin-wave transport in an antiferromagnet
J.R. Hortensius, D. Afanasiev, M. Matthiesen, R. Leenders, R. Citro, A. V. Kimel, R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, B. A. Ivanov and Andrea Caviglia
Nature physics 17 9, 1001-1006 (2021)
Magnonics is a research field complementary to spintronics, in which the quanta of spin waves (magnons) replace electrons as information carriers, promising lower dissipation1,2,3. The development of ultrafast, nanoscale magnonic logic circuits calls for new tools and materials to generate coherent …
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Berry phase engineering at oxide interfaces
D. J. Groenendijk, C. Autieri, T. C. van Thiel, W. Brzezicki, J. R. Hortensius, D. Afanasiev, N. Gauquelin, P. Barone, K. H. W. van den Bos, S. van Aert, J. Verbeeck, A. Filippetti, S. Picozzi, M. Cuoco and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review research 2 2, 023404 (2020)
Three-dimensional strontium ruthenate (SrRuO3) is an itinerant ferromagnet that features Weyl points acting as sources of emergent magnetic fields, anomalous Hall conductivity, and unconventional spin dynamics. Integrating SrRuO3 in oxide heterostructures is potentially a novel route to engineer…
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Temperature dependent inverse spin Hall effect in Co/Pt spintronic emitters
M. Matthiesen, D. Afanasiev, J. R. Hortensius, T. C. van Thiel, R. Medapalli, E. E. Fullerton and Andrea Caviglia
Applied physics letters 116 21, 212405 (2020)
In bilayers of ferromagnets and heavy metals, which form the so-called spintronic emitters, the phenomena of ultrafast demagnetization and the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) conspire to yield remarkably efficient emission of electric pulses in the THz band. Light-induced demagnetization of the…
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Extraordinary Hall balance in ultrathin SrRuO3 bilayers
T C van Thiel, D J Groenendijk and Andrea Caviglia
JPhys materials 3 2, 025005 (2020)
The correlated 4d transition metal oxide SrRuO 3 (SRO) features an anomalous Hall effect that originates from momentum-space sources of Berry curvature and depends sensitively on the magnetization. Here, we exploit this sensitivity and realize an epitaxial extraordinary Hall balance…
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Ultrathin complex oxide nanomechanical resonators
D. Davidovikj, D. J. Groenendijk, A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, A. Dijkhoff, D. Afanasiev, M. Šiškins, M. Lee, Y. Huang, E. van Heumen, H. S. J. van der Zant, Andrea Caviglia and P. G. Steeneken
Communications physics 3 1, 163 (2020)
Complex oxide thin films and heterostructures exhibit a variety of electronic phases, often controlled by the mechanical coupling between film and substrate. Recently it has become possible to isolate epitaxially grown single-crystalline layers of these materials, enabling the study of their…
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Anisotropic magnetoresistance in spin–orbit semimetal SrIrO3
Dirk J. Groenendijk, Nicola Manca, Joeri de Bruijckere, Ana Mafalda R. V. L. Monteiro, Rocco Gaudenzi, Herre S. J. van der Zant and Andrea Caviglia
The European physical journal plus 135 8, 627 (2020)
SrIrO3, the three-dimensional member of the Ruddlesden–Popper iridates, is a paramagnetic semimetal characterised by a the delicate interplay between spin–orbit coupling and Coulomb repulsion. In this work, we study the anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) of SrIrO3 thin films, which is closely…
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Coupling Lattice Instabilities Across the Interface in Ultrathin Oxide Heterostructures
Thierry C. van Thiel, Jennifer Fowlie, Carmine Autieri, Nicola Manca, Makars Šiškins, Dmytro Afanasiev, Stefano Gariglio and Andrea Caviglia
ACS Materials Letters 2 4, 389-394 (2020)
Oxide heterointerfaces constitute a rich platform for realizing novel functionalities in condensed matter. A key aspect is the strong link between structural and electronic properties, which can be modified by interfacing materials with distinct lattice symmetries. Here, we determine the effect of…
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A spin–orbit playground: surfaces and interfaces of transition metal oxides
Stefano Gariglio, Andrea Caviglia, Jean-Marc Triscone and M Gabay
Reports on Progress in Physics 82 012501 (2019)
Within the last twenty years, the status of the spin–orbit interaction has evolved from that of a simple atomic contribution to a key effect that modifies the electronic band structure of materials. It is regarded as one of the basic ingredients for spintronics, locking together charge and spin…
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Band inversion driven by electronic correlations at the (111) LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface
A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, M. Vivek, D. J. Groenendijk, P. Bruneel, I. Leermakers, U. Zeitler, M. Gabay and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review. B. 99 20, 201102 (2019)
Quantum confinement at complex oxide interfaces establishes an intricate hierarchy of the strongly correlated d orbitals which is widely recognized as a source of emergent physics. The most prominent example is the (001) LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) interface, which features a dome-shaped phase diagram…
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Large Tunability of Strain in WO3 Single-Crystal Microresonators Controlled by Exposure to H2 Gas
Nicola Manca, Giordano Mattoni, Marco Pelassa, Warner J. Venstra, Herre S. J. van der Zant and Andrea Caviglia
ACS applied materials & interfaces 11 47, 44438-44443 (2019)
Strain engineering is one of the most effective approaches to manipulate the physical state of materials, control their electronic properties, and enable crucial functionalities. Because of their rich phase diagrams arising from competing ground states, quantum materials are an ideal playground for …
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Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Photodoped Spin-Orbit Mott Insulator Sr2IrO4
D. Afanasiev, A. Gatilova, D. J. Groenendijk, B. A. Ivanov, Marta Gibert Gutierrez, Stefano Gariglio, J. Mentink, J. Li, N. Dasari, M. Eckstein, Th. Rasing, Andrea Caviglia and A. V. Kimel
Physical Review X 9 021020 (2019)
Ultrafast photodoping of the Mott insulators, possessing strong correlation between electronic and magnetic degrees of freedom, holds promise for launching an ultrafast dynamics of spins which cannot be described in terms of conventional models of ultrafast magnetism. Here we study the ultrafast…
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Charge doping and large lattice expansion in oxygen-deficient heteroepitaxial WO3
Giordano Mattoni, Alessio Filippetti, Nicola Manca, Pavlo Zubko and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review materials 2 5, 053402 (2018)
Tungsten trioxide (WO3) is a versatile material with widespread applications ranging from electrochromics and optoelectronics to water splitting and catalysis of chemical reactions. For technological applications, thin films of WO3 are particularly appealing, taking advantage from a high…
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Light control of the nanoscale phase separation in heteroepitaxial nickelates
G. Mattoni, N. Manca, M. Hadjimichael, P. Zubko, A. J. H. van der Torren, C. Yin, S. Catalano, Marta Gibert Gutierrez, F. Maccherozzi, Y. Liu, S. S. Dhesi and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review materials 2 8, 085002 (2018)
Strongly correlated materials show unique solid-state phase transitions with rich nanoscale phenomenology that can be controlled by external stimuli. Particularly interesting is the case of light–matter interaction in the proximity of the metal–insulator transition of heteroepitaxial…
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Balanced electron-hole transport in spin-orbit semimetal SrIrO3 heterostructures
Nicola Manca, Dirk J. Groenendijk, Ilaria Pallecchi, Carmine Autieri, Lucas M. K. Tang, Francesca Telesio, Giordano Mattoni, Alix McCollam, Silvia Picozzi and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review. B. 97 8, 081105 (2018)
issue. The partial occupation of numerous electron and hole bands can result in properties that are seemingly in contrast with one another, complicating the extraction of the transport coefficients of different bands. The 5d oxide SrIrO3 hosts parabolic bands of heavy holes and light electrons in…
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Multiple Supersonic Phase Fronts Launched at a Complex-Oxide Heterointerface
M. Först, K. R. Beyerlein, R. Mankowsky, W. Hu, G. Mattoni, Sara Catalano, Marta Gibert Gutierrez, O. Yefanov, J. N. Clark, A. Frano, J. M. Glownia, M. Chollet, H. Lemke, B. Moser, S. P. Collins, S. S. Dhesi, Andrea Caviglia, Jean-Marc Triscone and A. Cavalleri
Physical review letters 118 2, 027401 (2017)
Selective optical excitation of a substrate lattice can drive phase changes across heterointerfaces. This phenomenon is a nonequilibrium analogue of static strain control in heterostructures and may lead to new applications in optically controlled phase change devices. Here, we make use of…
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Quantum paraelectricity probed by superconducting resonators
D. Davidovikj, N. Manca, H. S. J. van der Zant, Andrea Caviglia and G. A. Steele
Physical review. B. 95 21, 214513 (2017)
Superconducting coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonators are powerful and versatile tools used in areas ranging from radiation detection to circuit quantum electrodynamics. Their potential for low intrinsic losses makes them attractive as sensitive probes of electronic properties of bulk materials and…
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Selective High-Frequency Mechanical Actuation Driven by the VO2 Electronic Instability
Nicola Manca, Luca Pellegrino, Teruo Kanki, Warner J. Venstra, Giordano Mattoni, Yoshiyuki Higuchi, Hidekazu Tanaka, Andrea Caviglia and Daniele Marré
Advanced materials 29 35, 1701618 (2017)
Micro- and nano-electromechanical resonators are a fundamental building block of modern technology, used in environmental monitoring, robotics, medical tools as well as fundamental science. These devices rely on dedicated electronics to generate their driving signal, resulting in an increased…
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Side Gate Tunable Josephson Junctions at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface
A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, D. J. Groenendijk, N. Manca, E. Mulazimoglu, S. Goswami, Ya. Blanter, L. M. K. Vandersypen and Andrea Caviglia
Nano letters 17 2, 715-720 (2017)
Novel physical phenomena arising at the interface of complex oxide heterostructures offer exciting opportunities for the development of future electronic devices. Using the prototypical LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface as a model system, we employ a single-step lithographic process to realize gate-tunable…
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Spin-Orbit Semimetal SrIrO3 in the Two-Dimensional Limit
D. J. Groenendijk, C. Autieri, J. Girovsky, M. Carmen Martinez-Velarte, N. Manca, G. Mattoni, A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, N. Gauquelin, J. Verbeeck, A. F. Otte, M. Gabay, S. Picozzi and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review letters 119 25, 256403 (2017)
We investigate the thickness-dependent electronic properties of ultrathin SrIrO3 and discover a transition from a semimetallic to a correlated insulating state below 4 unit cells. Low-temperature magnetoconductance measurements show that spin fluctuations in the semimetallic state are significantly …
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Two-dimensional superconductivity at the (111) LaAlO3 / SrTiO3 interface
A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, D. J. Groenendijk, I. Groen, J. de Bruijckere, R. Gaudenzi, H. S. J. van der Zant and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review. B. 96 2, 020504 (2017)
We report on the discovery and transport study of the superconducting ground state present at the (111)LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) interface. The superconducting transition is consistent with a BerezinskiiKosterlitz-Thouless transition and its two-dimensional nature is further corroborated by the…
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Insulator-to-Metal Transition at Oxide Interfaces Induced by WO3 Overlayers
Giordano Mattoni, David J. Baek, Nicola Manca, Nils Verhagen, Dirk J. Groenendijk, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Alessio Filippetti and Andrea Caviglia
ACS applied materials & interfaces 9 48, 42336-42343 (2017)
Interfaces between complex oxides constitute a unique playground for two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs), where superconductivity and magnetism can arise from combinations of bulk insulators. The 2DES at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface is one of the most studied in this regard, and its origin is…
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Epitaxial growth and thermodynamic stability of SrIrO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures
D. J. Groenendijk, N. Manca, G. Mattoni, L. Kootstra, Stefano Gariglio, Y. Huang, E. van Heumen and Andrea Caviglia
Applied physics letters 109 4, 041906 (2016)
Obtaining high-quality thin films of 5d transition metal oxides is essential to explore the exotic semimetallic and topological phases predicted to arise from the combination of strong electron correlations and spin-orbit coupling. Here, we show that the transport properties of SrIrO3 thin films,…
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Striped nanoscale phase separation at the metal–insulator transition of heteroepitaxial nickelates
G. Mattoni, Pavlo Zubko, F. Maccherozzi, A.J.H. van der Torren, D. B. Boltje, M. Hadjimichael, N. Manca, Sara Catalano, Marta Gibert Gutierrez, Y. Liu, J. Aarts, Jean-Marc Triscone, S. S. Dhesi and Andrea Caviglia
Nature communications 7, 13141 (2016)
Nucleation processes of mixed-phase states are an intrinsic characteristic of first-order phase transitions, typically related to local symmetry breaking. Direct observation of emerging mixed-phase regions in materials showing a first-order metal-insulator transition (MIT) offers unique…
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Quantum interference in an interfacial superconductor
Srijit Goswami, Emre Mulazimoglu, Ana M. R. V. L. Monteiro, Roman Wölbing, Dieter Koelle, Reinhold Kleiner, Ya. M. Blanter, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen and Andrea Caviglia
Nature nanotechnology 11 10, 861-865 (2016)
The two-dimensional superconductor formed at the interface between the complex oxides, lanthanum aluminate (LAO) and strontium titanate (STO) [1] has several intriguing properties [2–6] that set it apart from conventional superconductors. Most notably, an electric field can be used to tune its…
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Spatially resolved ultrafast magnetic dynamics initiated at a complex oxide heterointerface
M. Först, Andrea Caviglia, Raoul Scherwitzl, R. Mankowsky, Pavlo Zubko, V. Khanna, H. Bromberger, S. B. Wilkins, Y.-D. Chuang, W. S. Lee, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, G. L. Dakovski, M. P. Minitti, J. Robinson, S. R. Clark, D. Jaksch, Jean-Marc Triscone, J. P. Hill, S. S. Dhesi and A. Cavalleri
Nature materials 14 9, 883-888 (2015)
Static strain in complex oxide heterostructures1, 2 has been extensively used to engineer electronic and magnetic properties at equilibrium3. In the same spirit, deformations of the crystal lattice with light may be used to achieve functional control across heterointerfaces dynamically4. Here, by…
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Nanoscale Electrostatic Control of Oxide Interfaces
Srijit Goswami, Emre Mulazimoglu, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen and Andrea Caviglia
Nano letters 15 4, 2627-2632 (2015)
We develop a robust and versatile platform to define nanostructures at oxide interfaces via patterned top gates. Using LaAlO3/SrTiO3 as a model system, we demonstrate controllable electrostatic confinement of electrons to nanoscale regions in the conducting interface. The excellent gate response,…
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Giant Negative Magnetoresistance Driven by Spin-Orbit Coupling at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface
M. Diez, A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, G. Mattoni, E. Cobanera, T. Hyart, E. Mulazimoglu, N. Bovenzi, C. W. J. Beenakker and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review letters 115 1, 016803 (2015)
The LaAlO3=SrTiO3 interface hosts a two-dimensional electron system that is unusually sensitive to the application of an in-plane magnetic field. Low-temperature experiments have revealed a giant negative magnetoresistance (dropping by 70%), attributed to a magnetic-field induced transition between …
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Growth-induced electron mobility enhancement at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface
Alexandre Fete, Claudia Cancellieri, Danfeng Li, Daniela Stornaiuolo, Andrea Caviglia, Stefano Gariglio and Jean-Marc Triscone
Applied physics letters 106 5, 051604 (2015)
We have studied the electronic properties of the 2D electron liquid present at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface in series of samples prepared at different growth temperatures. We observe that interfaces fabricated at 650 °C exhibit the highest low temperature mobility (…
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Melting of Charge Stripes in Vibrationally Driven La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 : Assessing the Respective Roles of Electronic and Lattice Order in Frustrated Superconductors
M. Först, R. I. Tobey, H. Bromberger, S. B. Wilkins, V. Khanna, Andrea Caviglia, Y.-D. Chuang, W. S. Lee, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, M. P. Minitti, O. Krupin, Z. J. Xu, J. S. Wen, G. D. Gu, S. S. Dhesi, A. Cavalleri and J. P. Hill
Physical review letters 112 15, 157002 (2014)
We report femtosecond resonant soft x-ray diffraction measurements of the dynamics of the charge order and of the crystal lattice in nonsuperconducting, stripe-ordered La 1.875 Ba 0.125 CuO 4 . Excitation of the in-plane Cu-O stretching phonon with a midinfrared pulse has been previously shown to…
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Photoinduced melting of magnetic order in the correlated electron insulator NdNiO3
Andrea Caviglia, M. Först, Raoul Scherwitzl, V. Khanna, H. Bromberger, R. Mankowsky, R. Singla, Y.-D. Chuang, W. S. Lee, O. Krupin, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, G. L. Dakovski, M. P. Minitti, J. Robinson, V. Scagnoli, S. B. Wilkins, S. A. Cavill, Marta Gibert Gutierrez, Stefano Gariglio, Pavlo Zubko, Jean-Marc Triscone, J. P. Hill, S. S. Dhesi and A. Cavalleri
Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics 88 22, 220401-220401-5 (2013)
Using ultrafast resonant soft x-ray diffraction, we demonstrate photoinduced melting of antiferromagnetic order in the correlated electron insulator NdNiO3. Time-dependent analysis of the resonant diffraction spectra allows us to followthe temporal evolution of the charge imbalance between…
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Ultrafast Strain Engineering in Complex Oxide Heterostructures
Andrea Caviglia, Raoul Scherwitzl, P. Popovich, W. Hu, H. Bromberger, R. Singla, M. Mitrano, M. Hoffmann, S. Kaiser, Pavlo Zubko, Stefano Gariglio, Jean-Marc Triscone, M. Först and A. Cavalleri
Physical review letters 108 13, 5 p. (2012)
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Electrostriction at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface
Claudia Cancellieri, D. Fontaine, Stefano Gariglio, Nicolas Reyren, Andrea Caviglia, Alexandre Fete, S. Leake, S. Pauli, P. Willmott, M. Stengel, Ph. Ghosez and Jean-Marc Triscone
Physical review letters 107 5, 056102 (2011)
We present a direct comparison between experimental data and ab-initio calculations for the electrostrictive effect in the polar LaAlO3 layer grown on SrTiO3 substrates. From the structural data, a complete screening of the LaAlO3 dipole field is observed for film …
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Diodes with breakdown voltages enhanced by the metal-insulator transition of LaAlO3–SrTiO3 interfaces
R. Jany, M. Breitschaft, G. Hammerl, A. Horsche, C. Richter, S. Paetel, J. Mannhart, Nicolas Stucki, Nicolas Reyren, Stefano Gariglio, Pavlo Zubko, Andrea Caviglia and Jean-Marc Triscone
Applied Physics Letters 96 18, 183504 (2010)
Using the metal-insulator transition that takes place as a function of carrier density at the LaAlO3-SrTiO3 interface, oxide diodes have been fabricated with room-temperature breakdown voltages of up to 200 V. With applied voltage, the capacitance of the diodes changes by a factor of 150. The…
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Tunable Rashba Spin-Orbit Interaction at Oxide Interfaces
Andrea Caviglia, M. Gabay, Stefano Gariglio, Nicolas Reyren, Claudia Cancellieri and Jean-Marc Triscone
Physical review letters 104 12, 126803 (2010)
The quasi-two-dimensional electron gas found at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface offers exciting new functionalities, such as tunable superconductivity, and has been proposed as a new nanoelectronics fabrication platform. Here we lay out a new example of an electronic property arising from the…
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Two-Dimensional Quantum Oscillations of the Conductance at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces
Andrea Caviglia, Stefano Gariglio, Claudia Cancellieri, Benjamin Sacepe, Alexandre Fete, Nicolas Reyren, M. Gabay, Alberto Morpurgo and Jean-Marc Triscone
Physical review letters 105 23, 236802 (2010)
We report on a study of magnetotransport in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces characterized by mobilities of the order of several thousands cm2/V s. We observe Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations whose period depends only on the perpendicular component of the magnetic field. This…
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Superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface
Stefano Gariglio, Nicolas Reyren, Andrea Caviglia and Jean-Marc Triscone
Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter 21 16, 164213 (2009)
We report on the structural characterization of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces and on their transport properties. LaAlO3 films were prepared using pulsed laser deposition onto TiO2 terminated (001) SrTiO3 substrates inducing a metallic conduction at the interface. Resistance and Hall effect measurements…
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Anisotropy of the superconducting transport properties of the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface
Nicolas Reyren, Stefano Gariglio, Andrea Caviglia, Didier Jaccard, T. Schneider and Jean-Marc Triscone
Applied Physics Letters 94 11, 112506 (2009)
The superconducting transport properties of the conducting LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface have been investigated in perpendicular and parallel magnetic fields. A large anisotropy in the transport properties is measured and the two-dimensional nature of the superconducting gas is confirmed. Analyses of the …
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Electron scattering at dislocations in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces
S. Thiel, C. W. Schneider, L. F. Kourkoutis, Dominique Muller, Nicolas Reyren, Andrea Caviglia, Stefano Gariglio, Jean-Marc Triscone and J. Mannhart
Physical review letters 102 4, 046809 (2009)
We report experimental investigations of the effects of microstructural defects and of disorder on the properties of 2D electron gases at oxide interfaces. The cross section for scattering of electrons at dislocations in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces has been measured and found to…
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Electric field control of the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface ground state
Andrea Caviglia, Stefano Gariglio, Nicolas Reyren, Didier Jaccard, T. Schneider, M. Gabay, S. Thiel, G. Hammerl, J. Mannhart and Jean-Marc Triscone
Nature 456 7222, 624-627 (2008)
Interfaces between complex oxides are emerging as one of the most interesting systems in condensed matter physics1. In this special setting, in which translational symmetry is artificially broken, a variety of new and unusual electronic phases can be promoted2. Theoretical studies predict complex…
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Superconducting Interfaces Between Insulating Oxides
Nicolas Reyren, S. Thiel, Andrea Caviglia, L. F. Kourkoutis, G. Hammerl, C. Richter, C. W. Schneider, T. Kopp, Anna-Sabina Ruetschi, Didier Jaccard, M. Gabay, D. A. Muller, Jean-Marc Triscone and J. Mannhart
Science 317 5842, 1196-1199 (2007)
At interfaces between complex oxides, electronic systems with unusual electronic properties can be generated. We report on superconductivity in the electron gas formed at the interface between two insulating dielectric perovskite oxides, LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. The behavior of the electron gas is that…
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Planar spin valves fabricated on manganite epitaxial thin films
I. Pallecchi, E. Bellingeri, G. Canu, Andrea Caviglia, A. S. Siri and D. Marré
Journal of applied physics 99 11, 114508 (2006)
We fabricate micrometric constrictions in manganite epitaxial thin films by atomic force microscope local anodization. We demonstrate the possibility of realizing planar spin valve devices, exhibiting hysteretic transport behavior as a function of the external magnetic field, associated with…
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