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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 88, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.075116
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- DOD-ARO [W911NF-11-1-0200]
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science [DEAC02-06CH11357]
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A series of ultrathin epitaxial films of EuNiO3 (ENO) were grown on a set of substrates traversing from compressive (-2.4%) to tensile (+2.5%) lattice mismatch. On moving from tensile to compressive strain, transport measurements demonstrate a successively suppressed Mott insulating behavior eventually resulting in a complete suppression of the insulating state at high compressive strain. Corroborating these findings, resonant soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the Ni L-3,L-2 edge reveals the presence of a strong multiplet splitting in the tensile strained samples that progressively weakens with increasing compressive strain. Combined with cluster calculations, the results show how cumulatively enhanced covalency (i.e., bandwidth) between Ni d and O p orbital derived states leads to the emergent metallic ground state not attainable in the bulk ENO.
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