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The metal-insulator transition (MIT) is a fundamental phenomenon in condensed matter physics and a hallmark of strong electronic correlations. Hydrogen-based systems offer a simple yet powerful model for investigating the MIT, as their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-26 Juan Felipe Huan Lew-Yee , Mario Piris

The insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) in strongly correlated materials, such as vanadium dioxide (VO2), offers a transformative platform for next-generation adaptive electronics and neuromorphic computing. However, harnessing this…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 Siyuan Huang , Shuaishuai Sun , Yin Shi , Wentao Wang , Chunhui Zhu , Huanfang Tian , Huaixin Yang , Jun Li , Jianqi Li

Metallic oxide SrVO3 represents a prototype system for the study of the mechanism behind thickness-induced metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) or crossover in thin films due to its simple cubic symmetry with one electron in the 3d state in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-16 Gaomin Wang , Zhen Wang , Meng Meng , Mohammad Saghayezhian , Lina Chen , Chen Chen , Hangwen Guo , Yimei Zhu , Ward Plummer , Jiandi Zhang

Many strongly correlated electronic materials, including high-temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance and metal-insulator-transition (MIT) materials, are inhomogeneous on a microscopic scale as a result of domain structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Jiang Wei , Zenghui Wang , Wei Chen , David H. Cobden

Vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3) is an archetypal Mott insulator in which the atomic positions and electron correlations change as temperature, pressure or doping are varied giving rise to different structural, magnetic or electronic phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-12 P. Homm , M. Menghini , J. W. Seo , S. Peters , J. -P. Locquet

An abrupt first-order metal-insulator transition (MIT) without structural phase transition is first observed by current-voltage measurements and micro-Raman scattering experiments, when a DC electric field is applied to a Mott insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Yong-Sik Lim , Hyun-Tak Kim , B. G. Chae , D. H. Youn , K. O. Kim , K. Y. Kang , S. J. Lee , K. Kim

We present a density-functional theory (DFT) study of the structural, electronic, and chemical bonding behaviour in germanium (Ge)-doped vanadium dioxide (VO$_2$). Our motivation is to explain the reported increase of the metal-insulator…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-03 Peter Mlkvik , Claude Ederer , Nicola A. Spaldin

To compare the metal-insulator transitions (MITs) of VO2 and V2O3 we analyze the relations between the structural and electronic properties of the vanadium Magneli phases. These materials set up the homologous series VnO(2n-1) (3 <= n <= 9)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Udo Schwingenschloegl , Volker Eyert

Insulator-to-metal (MI) phase transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin films with controlled lattice distortion was investigated by thermopower measurements. VO2 epitaxial films with different crystallographic orientations, grown on (0001)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-15 Takayoshi Katase , Kenji Endo , Hiromichi Ohta

An abrupt Mott metal-insulator transition (MIT) rather than the continuous Hubbard MIT near a critical on-site Coulomb energy U/U_c=1 is observed for the first time in VO_2, a strongly correlated material, by inducing holes of about 0.018%…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Hyun-Tak Kim , B. G. Chae , D. H. Youn , S. L. Maeng , K. Y. Kang

The metal-insulator transition and unconventional metallic transport in vanadium dioxide (VO$_2$) are investigated with a combination of spectroscopic ellipsometry and reflectance measurements. The data indicates that electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Qazilbash , K. S. Burch , D. Whisler , D. Shrekenhamer , B. G. Chae , H. T. Kim , D. N. Basov

Using an \textit{ab initio} approach based on the GW approximation which includes strong local \textbf{k}-space correlations, the Metal-Insulator Transition of M$_2$ vanadium dioxide is broken down into its component parts and investigated.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-15 Jamie M. Booth , Daniel W. Drumm , Phil S. Casey , Suresh K. Bhargava , Jackson S. Smith , Salvy P. Russo

Through ${in~situ}$ photoemission spectroscopy, we investigated the change in the electronic and crystal structures of dimensionality-controlled VO$_2$ films coherently grown on TiO$_2$(001) substrates. In the nanostructured films, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-28 D. Shiga , B. E. Yang , N. Hasegawa , T. Kanda , R. Tokunaga , K. Yoshimatsu , R. Yukawa , M. Kitamura , K. Horiba , H. Kumigashira

Metal-insulator (MI) transitions in correlated electron systems have long been a central and controversial issue in material science. Vanadium dioxide (VO2) exhibits a first-order MI transition at 340 K. For more than half a century, it has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Yasuhiro H. Matsuda , Daisuke Nakamura , Akihiko Ikeda , Shojiro Takeyama , Yuji Muraoka , Yuki Suga

The insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) in vanadium dioxide (VO2) has garnered extensive attention for its potential applications in ultrafast switches, neuronal network architectures, and storage technologies. However, a significant…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 Feng-Wu Guo , Wen-Hao Liu , Zhi Wang , Shu-Shen Li , Lin-Wang Wang , Jun-Wei Luo

In this paper we critically discuss several examples of two-dimensional electronic systems displaying interaction-driven metal-insulator transitions of the Mott (or Wigner--Mott) type, including dilute two-dimension electron gases (2DEG) in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-04 Yuting Tan , Vladimir Dobrosavljevic , Louk Rademaker

Nonequilibrium phase transitions driven by light pulses represent a rapidly developing field in condensed matter physics. As one of the archetypal strongly correlated materials, vanadium dioxide (VO2) undergoes a structural phase transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Lin Zhang , Utso Bhattacharya , Maria Recasens , Tobias Grass , Ravindra W. Chhajlany , Maciej Lewenstein , Allan S. Johnson

$VO_2$ undergoes the insulator-metal transition (IMT) and monoclinic-rutile structural phase transition (SPT) near $67^oC$. The IMT switching has many applications. However, there is an unresolved issue whether the IMT is a Mott transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-18 Chang-Yong Kim , Tetiana Slusar , Jinchul Cho , Hyun-Tak Kim

Metal-insulator transitions (MIT),an intriguing correlated phenomenon induced by the subtle competition of the electrons' repulsive Coulomb interaction and kinetic energy, is of great potential use for electronic applications due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-13 Kun Han , Hanyu Wang , Liang Wu , Yu Cao , Dong-Chen Qi , Changjian Li , Zhen Huang , Xiao Li , X. Renshaw Wang

Vanadium dioxide (VO$_2$) is central in the study of ultrafast photoinduced insulator-to-metal phase transitions in strongly correlated materials, and a primary candidate for next-generation light-driven devices. However, the physical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 S. Mandal , P. Kumar , H. Y. Kim , Z. Pi , J. Xu , D. Chen , D. Kazenwadel , P. Baum , S. Meng , E. Goulielmakis