2021年12月
Single-domain perpendicular magnetization induced by the coherent O 2p-Ru 4d hybridized state in an ultra-high-quality SrRuO3 film
Physical Review Materials
- 巻
- 5
- 号
- 12
- 開始ページ
- 124403
- 終了ページ
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.124403
- 出版者・発行元
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
We investigated the Ru 4d and O 2p electronic structure and magnetic properties of an ultrahigh-quality SrRuO3 film on SrTiO3 grown by machine-learning assisted molecular-beam epitaxy. The high itinerancy and long quantum lifetimes of the quasiparticles in the Ru 4d t(2g)-O 2p hybridized valence band are confirmed by observing the prominent well-screened peak in the Ru 3d core-level photoemission spectrum, the coherent peak near the Fermi energy in the valence-band spectrum, and quantum oscillations in the resistivity. The element-specific magnetic properties and the hybridization between the Ru 4d and O 2p orbitals were characterized by Ru M-2,M-3-edge and O K-edge soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements. The ultrahigh-quality SrRuO3 film with the residual resistivity ratio of 86 shows the large orbital magnetic moment of oxygen ions induced by the strong orbital hybridization of the O 2p states with the spin-polarized Ru 4d t(2g) states. The film also shows single-domain perpendicular magnetization with an almost ideal remanent magnetization ratio of 0.97. These results provide detailed insights into the relevance between orbital hybridization and the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in SrRuO3/SrTiO3 systems.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.124403
- ISSN : 2475-9953
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000727712700003