Engineering a spin-orbital magnetic insulator by tailoring superlattices

人工超格子によるスピン軌道相互作用に由来した磁気絶縁体の作成

松野 丈夫*; 井原 康太*; 山村 周玄*; 和達 大樹*; 石井 賢司; Shankar, V.*; Kee, H.-Y.*; 高木 英典*

Matsuno, Jobu*; Ihara, Kota*; Yamamura, Shugen*; Wadachi, Hiroki*; Ishii, Kenji; Shankar, V.*; Kee, H.-Y.*; Takagi, Hidenori*

In Ir oxides with interplay of spin-orbit coupling and electron correlations, we have tailored a spin-orbital magnetic insulator out of a semimetal SrIrO by tuning the structure through superlattices [(SrIrO), SrTiO] ( = 1, 2, 3, 4, and ). We observed the systematic decrease of the magnetic ordering temperature and the resistivity as a function of . The transition from the semimetal to the insulator is found to be closely linked to the appearance of magnetism at 3. Long range magnetic ordering was realized even in the = 1 single layer superlattice, implying that the design and realization of novel electronic phases is feasible at the level of a single atomic layer in complex Ir oxides.