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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 86, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.035128
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- Army Research Office [W911NF-11-1-0331]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-0856234, EPS-0814194]
- EPSCoR
- Office Of The Director [814194] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We perform a time-resolved optical study of Sr2IrO4 to understand the influence of magnetic ordering on the low energy electronic structure of a strongly spin-orbit coupled J(eff) = 1/2 Mott insulator. By studying the recovery dynamics of photoexcited carriers, we find that upon cooling through the Neel temperature T-N the system evolves continuously from a metal-like phase with fast (similar to 50 fs) and excitation density independent relaxation dynamics to a gapped phase characterized by slower (similar to 500 fs) excitation density-dependent bimolecular recombination dynamics, which is a hallmark of a Slater-type metal-to-insulator transition. However our data indicate that the high energy reflectivity associated with optical transitions into the unoccupied J(eff) = 1/2 band undergoes the sharpest upturn at T-N, which is consistent with a Mott-Hubbard type metal-to-insulator transition involving spectral weight transfer into an upper Hubbard band. These findings show Sr2IrO4 to be a unique system in which Slater-and Mott-Hubbard-type behaviors coexist and naturally explain the absence of anomalies at T-N in transport and thermodynamic measurements.
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