Pressure tuning of the spin-orbit coupled ground state in Sr 2IrO 4

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Haskel, D ^a   Fabbris, G ^a,b   Zhernenkov, Mikhail ^a   Kong, P P ^c   Jin, C Q ^c   Cao, G ^d   Van Veenendaal, M ^a,e  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT PRESSURES; COUPLED SYSTEMS; DIAMOND-ANVIL CELL; ELECTRONIC GROUND STATE; EXPECTATION VALUES; FERROMAGNETIC MOMENTS; INSULATING GAP; MAGNETIC TRANSITIONS; PRESSURE TUNING; SPIN ORBITS; TETRAGONAL CRYSTALS; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM;

EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS; INSULATION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 84863812502     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.027204     Document Type: Article

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