Interplay of spin-orbit interactions, dimensionality, and octahedral rotations in semimetallic SrIrO3

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Nie, Y F ^a,b   King, P D C ^a   Kim, C H ^a   Uchida, M ^a   Wei, H I ^a   Faeth, B D ^a   Ruf, J P ^a   Ruff, J P C ^c   Xie, L ^b,d   Pan, X ^d   Fennie, C J ^a   Schlom, D G ^a   Shen, K M ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY;

ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION; NARROW BANDS; OCTAHEDRAL ROTATIONS; ORBITAL CHARACTER; OUT-OF PLANE; PARTIAL OCCUPATION; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATION;

ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84921038673     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.016401     Document Type: Article

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