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Long-range electronic reconstruction to a $d_{xz,yz}$-dominated Fermi surface below the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2014-06-23 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

Low dimensionality, broken symmetry and easily-modulated carrier concentrations provoke novel electronic phase emergence at oxide interfaces. However, the spatial extent of such reconstructions - i.e. the interfacial "depth" - remains unclear. Examining LaAlO3_3/SrTiO3_3 heterostructures at previously unexplored carrier densities n2D6.9×1014n_{2D}\geq6.9\times10^{14} cm2^{-2}, we observe a Shubnikov-de Haas effect for small in-plane fields, characteristic of an anisotropic 3D Fermi surface with preferential dxz,yzd_{xz,yz} orbital occupancy extending over at least 100~nm perpendicular to the interface. Quantum oscillations from the 3D Fermi surface of bulk doped SrTiO3_3 emerge simultaneously at higher n2Dn_{2D}. We distinguish three areas in doped perovskite heterostructures: narrow (<20<20 nm) 2D interfaces housing superconductivity and/or other emergent phases, electronically isotropic regions far (>120>120 nm) from the interface and new intermediate zones where interfacial proximity renormalises the electronic structure relative to the bulk.

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@article{arxiv.1406.5344,
  title  = {Long-range electronic reconstruction to a $d_{xz,yz}$-dominated Fermi surface below the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface},
  author = {A. P. Petrović and A. Paré and T. R. Paudel and K. Lee and S. Holmes and C. H. W. Barnes and A. David and T. Wu and E. Y. Tsymbal and C. Panagopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5344},
  year   = {2014}
}

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