Quantum fluctuations lead to glassy electron dynamics in the good metal regime of electron doped KTaO3
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| author | Ojha, Shashank Kumar Hazra, Sankalpa Bera, Surajit Gogoi, Sanat Kumar Mandal, Prithwijit Maity, Jyotirmay Gloskovskii, A. Schlueter, C. Karmakar, Smarajit Jain, Manish Banerjee, Sumilan Gopalan, Venkatraman Middey, Srimanta |
| author_facet | Ojha, Shashank Kumar Hazra, Sankalpa Bera, Surajit Gogoi, Sanat Kumar Mandal, Prithwijit Maity, Jyotirmay Gloskovskii, A. Schlueter, C. Karmakar, Smarajit Jain, Manish Banerjee, Sumilan Gopalan, Venkatraman Middey, Srimanta |
| contents | One of the central challenges in condensed matter physics is to comprehend systems that have strong disorder and strong interactions. In the strongly localized regime, their subtle competition leads to glassy electron dynamics which ceases to exist well before the insulator-to-metal transition is approached as a function of doping. Here, we report on the discovery of glassy electron dynamics deep inside the good metal regime of an electron-doped quantum paraelectric system: KTaO$_3$. We reveal that upon excitation of electrons from defect states to the conduction band, the excess injected carriers in the conduction band relax in a stretched exponential manner with a large relaxation time, and the system evinces simple aging phenomena - a telltale sign of glassy dynamics. Most significantly, we observe a critical slowing down of carrier dynamics below 35 K, concomitant with the onset of quantum paraelectricity in the undoped KTaO$_3$. Our combined investigation using second harmonic generation technique, density functional theory and phenomenological modeling demonstrates quantum fluctuation-stabilized soft polar modes as the impetus for the glassy behavior. This study addresses one of the most fundamental questions regarding the potential promotion of glassiness by quantum fluctuations and opens a route for exploring glassy dynamics of electrons in a well-delocalized regime. |
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| spellingShingle | Quantum fluctuations lead to glassy electron dynamics in the good metal regime of electron doped KTaO3 Ojha, Shashank Kumar Hazra, Sankalpa Bera, Surajit Gogoi, Sanat Kumar Mandal, Prithwijit Maity, Jyotirmay Gloskovskii, A. Schlueter, C. Karmakar, Smarajit Jain, Manish Banerjee, Sumilan Gopalan, Venkatraman Middey, Srimanta Strongly Correlated Electrons Disordered Systems and Neural Networks One of the central challenges in condensed matter physics is to comprehend systems that have strong disorder and strong interactions. In the strongly localized regime, their subtle competition leads to glassy electron dynamics which ceases to exist well before the insulator-to-metal transition is approached as a function of doping. Here, we report on the discovery of glassy electron dynamics deep inside the good metal regime of an electron-doped quantum paraelectric system: KTaO$_3$. We reveal that upon excitation of electrons from defect states to the conduction band, the excess injected carriers in the conduction band relax in a stretched exponential manner with a large relaxation time, and the system evinces simple aging phenomena - a telltale sign of glassy dynamics. Most significantly, we observe a critical slowing down of carrier dynamics below 35 K, concomitant with the onset of quantum paraelectricity in the undoped KTaO$_3$. Our combined investigation using second harmonic generation technique, density functional theory and phenomenological modeling demonstrates quantum fluctuation-stabilized soft polar modes as the impetus for the glassy behavior. This study addresses one of the most fundamental questions regarding the potential promotion of glassiness by quantum fluctuations and opens a route for exploring glassy dynamics of electrons in a well-delocalized regime. |
| title | Quantum fluctuations lead to glassy electron dynamics in the good metal regime of electron doped KTaO3 |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Disordered Systems and Neural Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14464 |