Square lattice iridates

J Bertinshaw, YK Kim, G Khaliullin… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Over the past few years, Sr2IrO4, a single-layer member of the Ruddlesden–Popper series
iridates, has received much attention as a close analog of cuprate high-temperature …

The challenge of spin–orbit-tuned ground states in iridates: a key issues review

G Cao, P Schlottmann - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Effects of spin–orbit interactions in condensed matter are an important and rapidly
evolving topic. Strong competition between spin–orbit, on-site Coulomb and crystalline …

A Hubbard exciton fluid in a photo-doped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator

O Mehio, X Li, H Ning, Z Lenarčič, Y Han, M Buchhold… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The undoped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator naturally has one charge carrier per lattice
site. When it is doped with additional carriers, they are unstable to spin-fluctuation-mediated …

Excitonic quasiparticles in a spin–orbit Mott insulator

J Kim, M Daghofer, AH Said, T Gog… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
In condensed matter systems, out of a large number of interacting degrees of freedom
emerge weakly coupled quasiparticles (QPs), in terms of which most physical properties are …

Large Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy and Giant Coercivity in the Ferrimagnetic Double Perovskite Lu2NiIrO6

PC Rout, U Schwingenschlogl - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
We discover that large uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy driven by the simultaneous
presence of spin–orbit coupling and structural distortions is the origin of the giant coercivity …

Pseudospin-lattice coupling in the spin-orbit Mott insulator

J Porras, J Bertinshaw, H Liu, G Khaliullin, NH Sung… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Spin-orbit entangled magnetic dipoles, often referred to as pseudospins, provide a new
avenue to explore novel magnetism inconceivable in the weak spin-orbit coupling limit, but …

Orbital reconstruction in nonpolar tetravalent transition-metal oxide layers

NA Bogdanov, VM Katukuri, J Romhányi… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
A promising route to tailoring the electronic properties of quantum materials and devices
rests on the idea of orbital engineering in multilayered oxide heterostructures. Here we show …

Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Insulator Unraveled from Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Artificial Perovskite Iridate Superlattices

L Hao, D Meyers, C Frederick, G Fabbris, J Yang… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report an experimental investigation of the two-dimensional J eff= 1/2 antiferromagnetic
Mott insulator by varying the interlayer exchange coupling in [(SrIrO 3) 1,(SrTiO 3) m](m= 1, 2 …

Strong ferromagnetism induced by canted antiferromagnetic order in double perovskite iridates

WK Zhu, CK Lu, W Tong, JM Wang, HD Zhou… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Iridates represent a unique material system that possesses both strong spin-orbit coupling
and electron correlation. The interplay between spin-orbit coupling and correlation could …

Giant magnetic response of a two-dimensional antiferromagnet

L Hao, D Meyers, H Suwa, J Yang, C Frederick… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
A fundamental difference between antiferromagnets and ferromagnets is the lack of linear
coupling to a uniform magnetic field due to the staggered order parameter. Such coupling is …