Imaging the itinerant-to-localized transmutation of electrons across the metal-to-insulator transition in V <sub>2</sub> O <sub>3</sub>
Maximilian Thees, Min‐Han Lee, Rosa Luca Bouwmeester, Pedro Henrique Rezende Gonçalves, Emma David, A. Zimmers, F. Fortuna, E. Frantzeskakis, Nicolás M. Vargas, Yoav Kalcheim, Patrick Le Fèvre, Koji Horiba, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Silke Biermann, Juan Trastoy, M. J. Rozenberg, Iván K. Schuller, A. F. Santander-Syro
Abstract
, the temperature-induced MIT is characterized by the progressive disappearance of its itinerant conduction band, without any change in its energy-momentum dispersion, and the simultaneous shift to larger binding energies of a quasi-localized state initially located near the Fermi level.
Topics & Concepts
Nuclear transmutationElectronTransition metalMetal–insulator transitionCondensed matter physicsMaterials sciencePhysicsMetalAtomic physicsNuclear physicsChemistryNeutronMetallurgyCatalysisBiochemistryElectronic and Structural Properties of OxidesTransition Metal Oxide NanomaterialsMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials