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Chin. Phys. B, 2023, Vol. 32(8): 087108    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/acd7d5
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Single crystal growth and electronic structure of Rh-doped Sr3Ir2O7

Bingqian Wang(王冰倩), Shuting Peng(彭舒婷), Zhipeng Ou(欧志鹏), Yuchen Wang(王宇晨), Muhammad Waqas, Yang Luo(罗洋), Zhiyuan Wei(魏志远), Linwei Huai(淮琳崴),Jianchang Shen(沈建昌), Yu Miao(缪宇), Xiupeng Sun(孙秀鹏), Yuewei Yin(殷月伟), and Junfeng He(何俊峰)
Department of Physics and CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-coupled Quantum Matter Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Abstract  Ruddlesden-Popper iridate Sr3Ir2O7 is a spin-orbit coupled Mott insulator. Hole doped Sr3Ir2O7 provides an ideal platform to study the exotic quantum phenomena that occur near the metal-insulator transition (MIT) region. Rh substitution of Ir is an effective method to induce hole doping into Sr3Ir2O7. However, the highest doping level reported in Sr3(Ir1-xRhx)2O7 single crystals was only around 3%, which is far from the MIT region. In this paper, we report the successful growth of single crystals of Sr3(Ir1-xRhx)2O7 with a doping level of ~ 9%. The samples have been fully characterized, demonstrating the high quality of the single crystals. Transport measurements have been carried out, confirming the tendency of MIT in these samples. The electronic structure has also been examined by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements. Our results establish a platform to investigate the heavily hole doped Sr3Ir2O7 compound, which also provide new insights into the MIT with hole doping in this material system.
Keywords:  hole doped iridate      single crystal growth      metal-insulator transition      angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)  
Received:  15 April 2023      Revised:  15 May 2023      Accepted manuscript online:  23 May 2023
PACS:  71.10.Hf (Non-Fermi-liquid ground states, electron phase diagrams and phase transitions in model systems)  
  71.20.-b (Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids)  
  71.30.+h (Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions)  
  71.27.+a (Strongly correlated electron systems; heavy fermions)  
Fund: The work at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) was supported by the USTC start-up fund, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.12074358 and 12004363),the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos.WK3510000008 and WK2030000035), and the Innovation Program for Quantum Science and Technology (Grant No.2021ZD0302802). Use of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No.DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Corresponding Authors:  Junfeng He     E-mail:  jfhe@ustc.edu.cn

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Bingqian Wang(王冰倩), Shuting Peng(彭舒婷), Zhipeng Ou(欧志鹏), Yuchen Wang(王宇晨), Muhammad Waqas, Yang Luo(罗洋), Zhiyuan Wei(魏志远), Linwei Huai(淮琳崴), Jianchang Shen(沈建昌), Yu Miao(缪宇), Xiupeng Sun(孙秀鹏), Yuewei Yin(殷月伟), and Junfeng He(何俊峰) Single crystal growth and electronic structure of Rh-doped Sr3Ir2O7 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 087108

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