Projects per year
Abstract
The intriguing idea that strongly interacting electrons can generate spatially inhomogeneous electronic liquid-crystalline phases is over a decade old(1-5), but these systems still represent an unexplored frontier of condensed-matter physics. One reason is that visualization of the many-body quantum states generated by the strong interactions, and of the resulting electronic phases, has not been achieved. Soft condensed-matter physics was transformed by microscopies that enabled imaging of real-space structures and patterns. A candidate technique for obtaining equivalent data in the purely electronic systems is spectroscopic imaging scanning tunnelling microscopy (SI-STM). The core challenge is to detect the tenuous but 'heavy' momentum (k)-space components of the many-body electronic state simultaneously with its real-space constituents. Sr3Ru2O7 provides a particularly exciting opportunity to address these issues. It possesses a very strongly renormalized 'heavy' d-electron Fermi liquid(6,7) and exhibits a field-induced transition to an electronic liquid-crystalline phase(8,9). Finally, as a layered compound, it can be cleaved to present an excellent surface for SI-STM.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 800-804 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Nature Physics |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2009 |
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'Heavy d-electron quasiparticle interference and real-space electronic structure of Sr3Ru2O7'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 3 Finished
-
Sr3Ru2O7 Quantum Nematic Fluid Vector: Sr3RuO7 Quantum Nematic Fluid Vector Magnetic Field Tuning and Spectroscopic Imaging Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Mackenzie, A. (PI) & Davis, J. C. (CoI)
1/04/09 → 31/03/13
Project: Standard
-
EP/F006640/1 Probing the Quantum: Probing the quantum many-body states of low-dimensional metals by angular resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
Baumberger, F. (PI)
10/03/08 → 9/03/11
Project: Standard
-
SFC SRDG Centre SCISS: INTERDISCIPLINARY SCOTTISH CENTRE FOR SURFACE SPECTROSCOPY
Baumberger, F. (PI), Mackenzie, A. (CoI), Richardson, N. V. (CoI) & Schaub, R. (CoI)
1/06/07 → 31/05/11
Project: Standard