Mott resistive switching initiated by topological defects
Fuente:
arXiv
Enregistré dans:
| Auteurs principaux: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Preprint |
| Publié: |
2024
|
| Sujets: | |
| Accès en ligne: | |
| Tags: |
Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
|
| _version_ | 1866913568677429248 |
|---|---|
| author | Milloch, Alessandra Figueruelo-Campanero, Ignacio Hsu, Wei-Fan Mor, Selene Mellaerts, Simon Maccherozzi, Francesco Veiga, Larissa Ishibe Dhesi, Sarnjeet S. Spera, Mauro Seo, Jin Won Locquet, Jean-Pierre Fabrizio, Michele Menghini, Mariela Giannetti, Claudio |
| author_facet | Milloch, Alessandra Figueruelo-Campanero, Ignacio Hsu, Wei-Fan Mor, Selene Mellaerts, Simon Maccherozzi, Francesco Veiga, Larissa Ishibe Dhesi, Sarnjeet S. Spera, Mauro Seo, Jin Won Locquet, Jean-Pierre Fabrizio, Michele Menghini, Mariela Giannetti, Claudio |
| contents | Resistive switching is the fundamental process that triggers the sudden change of the electrical properties in solid-state devices under the action of intense electric fields. Despite its relevance for information processing, ultrafast electronics, neuromorphic devices, resistive memories and brain-inspired computation, the nature of the local stochastic fluctuations that drive the formation of metallic nuclei out of the insulating state has remained hidden. Here, using operando X-ray nano-imaging, we have captured the early-stages of resistive switching in a V2O3-based device under working conditions. V2O3 is a paradigmatic Mott material, which undergoes a first-order metal-to-insulator transition coupled to a lattice transformation that breaks the threefold rotational symmetry of the rhombohedral metal phase. We reveal a new class of volatile electronic switching triggered by nanoscale topological defects of the lattice order parameter of the insulating phase. Our results pave the way to the use of strain engineering approaches to manipulate topological defects and achieve the full control of the electronic Mott switching. The concept of topology-driven reversible electronic transition is of interest for a broad class of quantum materials, comprising transition metal oxides, chalcogenides and kagome metals, that exhibit first-order electronic transitions coupled to a symmetry-breaking order. |
| format | Preprint |
| id |
arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2402_00747 |
| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2024 |
| record_format | arxiv |
| spellingShingle | Mott resistive switching initiated by topological defects Milloch, Alessandra Figueruelo-Campanero, Ignacio Hsu, Wei-Fan Mor, Selene Mellaerts, Simon Maccherozzi, Francesco Veiga, Larissa Ishibe Dhesi, Sarnjeet S. Spera, Mauro Seo, Jin Won Locquet, Jean-Pierre Fabrizio, Michele Menghini, Mariela Giannetti, Claudio Strongly Correlated Electrons Resistive switching is the fundamental process that triggers the sudden change of the electrical properties in solid-state devices under the action of intense electric fields. Despite its relevance for information processing, ultrafast electronics, neuromorphic devices, resistive memories and brain-inspired computation, the nature of the local stochastic fluctuations that drive the formation of metallic nuclei out of the insulating state has remained hidden. Here, using operando X-ray nano-imaging, we have captured the early-stages of resistive switching in a V2O3-based device under working conditions. V2O3 is a paradigmatic Mott material, which undergoes a first-order metal-to-insulator transition coupled to a lattice transformation that breaks the threefold rotational symmetry of the rhombohedral metal phase. We reveal a new class of volatile electronic switching triggered by nanoscale topological defects of the lattice order parameter of the insulating phase. Our results pave the way to the use of strain engineering approaches to manipulate topological defects and achieve the full control of the electronic Mott switching. The concept of topology-driven reversible electronic transition is of interest for a broad class of quantum materials, comprising transition metal oxides, chalcogenides and kagome metals, that exhibit first-order electronic transitions coupled to a symmetry-breaking order. |
| title | Mott resistive switching initiated by topological defects |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00747 |