Na2IrO3 as a novel relativistic mott insulator with a 340-meV gap

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Comin, R ^a   Levy, G ^a   Ludbrook, B ^a   Zhu, Z H ^a   Veenstra, C N ^a   Rosen, J A ^a   Singh, Yogesh ^b   Gegenwart, P ^c   Stricker, D ^d   Hancock, J N ^d   Van Der Marel, D ^d   Elfimov, I S ^a   Damascelli, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MOHALI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; COULOMB REPULSIONS; GAP MAGNITUDE; INSULATING GAP; INSULATING STATE; MOTT INSULATORS; MOTT TRANSITIONS; RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

IRIDIUM; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

SODIUM;

EID: 84871773414     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.266406     Document Type: Article

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