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    Spin-orbital entanglement and molecular orbital formation in 4d and 5d transition metal oxides
    (2020) Krajewska, Aleksandra; Takagi, Hidenori (Prof. Dr.)
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    Character of doped holes in Nd1-xSrxNiO2
    (2021) Plienbumrung, Tharathep; Schmid, Michael Thobias; Daghofer, Maria; Oleś, Andrzej M.
    We investigate charge distribution in the recently discovered high-𝑇𝑐 superconductors, layered nickelates. With increasing value of charge-transfer energy, we observe the expected crossover from the cuprate to the local triplet regime upon hole doping. We find that the 𝑑-𝑝 Coulomb interaction 𝑈𝑑𝑝 makes Zhang-Rice singlets less favorable, while the amplitude of local triplets at Ni ions is enhanced. By investigating the effective two-band model with orbitals of 𝑥2-𝑦2 and s symmetries we show that antiferromagnetic interactions dominate for electron doping. The screened interactions for the s band suggest the importance of rare-earth atoms in superconducting nickelates.
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    An atomic‐scale vector network analyzer
    (2024) Baumann, Susanne; McMurtrie, Gregory; Hänze, Max; Betz, Nicolaj; Arnhold, Lukas; Malavolti, Luigi; Loth, Sebastian
    Electronic devices have been ever‐shrinking toward atomic dimensions and have reached operation frequencies in the GHz range, thereby outperforming most conventional test equipment, such as vector network analyzers (VNA). Here the capabilities of a VNA on the atomic scale in a scanning tunneling microscope are implemented. Nonlinearities present in the voltage‐current characteristic of atoms and nanostructures for phase‐resolved microwave spectroscopy with unprecedented spatial resolution at GHz frequencies are exploited. The amplitude and phase response up to 9.3 GHz is determined, which permits accurate de‐embedding of the transmission line and application of distortion‐corrected waveforms in the tunnel junction itself. This enables quantitative characterization of the complex‐valued admittance of individual magnetic iron atoms which show a lowpass response with a magnetic‐field‐tunable cutoff frequency.
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    Heteroepitaxial tuning of resonant forbidden reflections in a spinel
    (2024) Oka, Ryosuke; Kim, Minu; Wochner, Peter; Francoual, Sonia; Palstra, Thomas T. M.; Takagi, Hidenori; Huang, Dennis
    In resonant elastic X-ray scattering (REXS), low site symmetries in a crystal may be revealed through resonant Bragg reflections that are normally forbidden in conventional X-ray diffraction due to screw axes and/or glide planes. These resonant forbidden reflections have been observed in spinel compounds, but to better understand and utilize their connection to microscopic material parameters and possible charge and/or orbital ordering, a systematic study of their dependence on growth conditions and applied strain is desired. We performed REXS at the V K edge and examined the resonant forbidden (002) reflection in thin films of the spinel LiV2O4 grown on three substrates: MgAl2O4, SrTiO3, and MgO. The energy dependence of the (002) reflection shows a systematic evolution as epitaxial strain modifies the local anisotropy of the V site. More strikingly, the integrated intensity of the (002) reflection varies by more than an order of magnitude in films on different substrates. We speculate that the large variation in integrated intensity reflects the varying degree of antiphase domains that arise during the epitaxy.
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    Direct visualization of stacking-selective self-intercalation in epitaxial Nb1+xSe2 films
    (2024) Wang, Hongguang; Zhang, Jiawei; Shen, Chen; Yang, Chao; Küster, Kathrin; Deuschle, Julia; Starke, Ulrich; Zhang, Hongbin; Isobe, Masahiko; Huang, Dennis; van Aken, Peter A.; Takagi, Hidenori
    Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials offer rich tuning opportunities generated by different stacking configurations or by introducing intercalants into the vdW gaps. Current knowledge of the interplay between stacking polytypes and intercalation often relies on macroscopically averaged probes, which fail to pinpoint the exact atomic position and chemical state of the intercalants in real space. Here, by using atomic-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy in a scanning transmission electron microscope, we visualize a stacking-selective self-intercalation phenomenon in thin films of the transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) Nb1+xSe2. We observe robust contrasts between 180°-stacked layers with large amounts of Nb intercalants inside their vdW gaps and 0°-stacked layers with little detectable intercalants inside their vdW gaps, coexisting on the atomic scale. First-principles calculations suggest that the films lie at the boundary of a phase transition from 0° to 180° stacking when the intercalant concentration x exceeds ~0.25, which we could attain in our films due to specific kinetic pathways. Our results offer not only renewed mechanistic insights into stacking and intercalation, but also open up prospects for engineering the functionality of TMDCs via stacking-selective self-intercalation.