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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
卷 129, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0035702
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- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation EPiQS Initiative [GBMF4534]
This study achieved successful layer-by-layer growth of frustrated quantum pyrochlores thin films, confirming their high crystallinity and proper chemical composition, which offers a new platform to explore strain and magnetic field-dependent properties in the quasi-2D limit.
Frustrated rare-earth pyrochlore titanates, Yb 2Ti 2O 7 and Tb 2Ti 2O 7, have been proposed as promising candidates to realize quantum spin ice (QSI). Multiple exotic quantum phases, including Coulombic ferromagnet, quantum valence bond solid, and quadrupolar ordering, have been predicted to emerge in the QSI state upon the application of a (111)-oriented external magnetic field. Here, we report on the successful layer-by-layer growth of thin films of the frustrated quantum pyrochlores, R 2Ti 2O 7 ( R = Er, Yb, and Tb), along the (111) direction. We confirm their high crystallinity and proper chemical composition by a combination of methods, including in situ RHEED, x-ray diffraction, reciprocal space mapping, and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The availability of large area (111)-oriented QSI structures with planar geometry offers a new complementary to the bulk platform to explore the strain and the magnetic field-dependent properties in the quasi-2D limit.
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