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We study numerically the voltage-induced breakdown of a Mott insulating phase in a system of charged classical particles with long-range interactions. At half-filling on a square lattice this system exhibits Mott localization in the form of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-29 Louk Rademaker , Valerii V. Vinokur , Alexey Galda

Vanadium dioxide is currently considered as one of the most promising metarials for oxide elcteronics. Both planar and sandwich thin-film MOM devices based on VO2 exhibit electrical switching with an S-shaped I-V characteristic, and this…

Transition metal phosphorous trichalcogenides, $M{\rm P}X_3$ ($M$ and $X$ being transition metal and chalcogen elements respectively), have been the focus of substantial interest recently because of their possible magnetism in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-05 Heung-Sik Kim , David Vanderbilt , Kristjan Haule

Mott insulator to metal transitions under electric field are currently the subject of numerous fundamental and applied studies. This puzzling effect, which involves non-trivial out-of-equilibrium effects in correlated systems, is indeed at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-09 P. Stoliar , M. Rozenberg , E. Janod , B. Corraze , J. Tranchant , L. Cario

This work explores the unique character of strongly correlated systems, specifically Mott-insulators, in the context of battery electrode materials. The study investigates the correlation between the proposed chemical potential evolution…

Metal-insulator transitions (MIT) belong to a class of fascinating physical phenomena, which includes superconductivity, and colossal magnetoresistance (CMR), that are associated with drastic modifications of electrical resistance. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-11 C. Vaju , L. Cario , B. Corraze , E. Janod , V. Dubost , T. Cren , D. Roditchev , D. Braithwaite , O. Chauvet

We investigate magnetoresistance of a square array of superconducting islands placed on a normal metal, which offers a unique tunable laboratory for realizing and exploring quantum many-body systems and their dynamics. A vortex Mott…

We present a class of holographic models that behave effectively as prototypes of Mott insulators, materials where electron-electron interactions dominate transport phenomena. The main ingredient in the gravity dual is that the gauge-field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Matteo Baggioli , Oriol Pujolas

The gas-liquid transition is a first-order transition terminating at a finite-temperature critical point with diverging density fluctuations. Mott transition, a metal-insulator transition driven by Coulomb repulsion between electrons, has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Masatoshi Imada

The transition voltage of an abrupt metal-insulator transition (MIT), observed by applying an electric field to two-terminal devices fabricated on a Mott insulator VO_2 film, decreases with increasing temperature up to 334K. The abrupt…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyun-Tak Kim , B. G. Chae , D. H. Youn , S. L. Maeng , K. Y. Kang

Using light to control transient phases in quantum materials is an emerging route to engineer new properties and functionality, with both thermal and non-thermal phases observed out of equilibrium. Transient phases are expected to be…

While the promise of clean and defect-free $\textrm{MoS}_{2}$ nanotubes as quantum electronic devices is obvious, ranging from strong spin-orbit interaction to intrinsic superconductivity, device fabrication still poses considerable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 R. T. K. Schock , S. Obloh , J. Neuwald , M. Kronseder , W. Möckel , M. Malok , L. Pirker , M. Remškar , A. K. Hüttel

Mott physics is characterized by an interaction-driven metal-to-insulator transition in a partially filled band. In the resulting insulating state, antiferromagnetic orders of the local moments typically develop, but in rare situations no…

Tuning the electronic properties of a matter is of fundamental interest in scientific research as well as in applications. Recently, the Mott insulator-metal transition has been reported in a pristine layered transition metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-29 Kunliang Bu , Wenhao Zhang , Ying Fei , Zongxiu Wu , Yuan Zheng , Jingjing Gao , Xuan Luo , Yu-Ping Sun , Yi Yin

The paradigmatic Mott insulator arises in strongly correlated systems, where strong local repulsion localizes interacting particles in underlying egg-holder-like potential. The corresponding Mott transition reflects delocalization of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-28 Andreas Glatz , Valerii Vinokur

Nonvolatile control of the Mott transition is a central goal in correlated-electron physics, offering access to fascinating emergent states and great potential for technological applications. Compared to chemical or mechanical approaches,…

Interaction-driven metal-insulator transitions or Mott transitions are widely observed in condensed-matter systems. In multi-orbital systems, many-body physics is richer in which an orbital-selective metal-insulator transition is an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-09 Hanghui Chen

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

Electrically driven metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) is of interest in emerging memory devices, neural computation, and high speed electronics. We report on the fabrication of out-of-plane VO2 metal-insulator-metal (MIM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 You Zhou , Xiaonan Chen , Changhyun Ko , Zheng Yang , Chandra Mouli , Shriram Ramanathan

We present the first-ever multi-scale dynamical simulation of the temperature-controlled Mott metal-insulator transition in the Hubbard model. By integrating advanced electronic structure method and an efficient Gutzwiller/slave-boson…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-19 Gia-Wei Chern