1932
0
  1. Home
  2. A-Z Publications
  3. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
  4. Volume 10, 2019
  5. Article

Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Volume 10, 2019

Metallicity and Superconductivity in Doped Strontium Titanate

Abstract

Strontium titanate is a wide-gap semiconductor avoiding a ferroelectric instability thanks to quantum fluctuations. This proximity leads to strong screening of static Coulomb interaction and paves the way for the emergence of a very dilute metal with extremely mobile carriers at liquid-helium temperature. Upon warming, mobility decreases by several orders of magnitude. Yet, metallicity persists above room temperature even when the apparent mean free path falls below the electron wavelength. The superconducting instability survives at exceptionally low concentrations and beyond the boundaries of Migdal–Eliashberg approximation. An intimate connection between dilute superconductivity and aborted ferroelectricity is widely suspected. In this review, we give a brief account of ongoing research on bulk strontium titanate as an insulator, a metal, and a superconductor.

Keyword(s): ferroelectricity, metal-insulator transition, polarons, quantum criticality, superfluid density
Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013144
2019-03-10
2024-05-03
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/conmatphys/10/1/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013144.html?itemId=/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013144&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

Literature Cited

  1. 1.  Noland JA 1954. Phys. Rev. 94:724
  2. 2.  Schooley JF, Hosler WR, Cohen ML 1964. Phys. Rev. Lett. 12:474–5
  3. 3.  Hulm JK, Ashkin D, Deis DW, Jones CK 1970. Prog. Low Temp. Phys. 6:205
  4. 4.  Bustarret E 2015. Physica C 514:36–45
  5. 5.  Bednorz JG, Müller KA 1988. Rev. Mod. Phys. 60:585–600
  6. 6.  Binnig G, Baratoff A, Hoenig HE, Bednorz JG 1980. Phys. Rev. Lett. 45:1352–55
  7. 7.  Nagamatsu J, Nakagawa N, Muranaka T, Zenitani Y, Akimitsu J 2001. Nature 410:63–64
  8. 8.  Schooley JF, Hosler WR, Ambler E, Becker JH, Cohen ML et al. 1965. Phys. Rev. Lett. 14:305–7
  9. 9.  Laughlin RB, Lonzarich GG, Monthoux P, Pines D 2001. Adv. Phys. 50:361–65
  10. 10.  Gurevich L, Larkin AI, Firsov Y 1962. Sov. Phys. Solid State 4:131
  11. 11.  Koonce CS, Cohen ML, Schooley JF, Hosler WR, Pfeiffer ER 1967. Phys. Rev. 163:380–90
  12. 12.  Mattheiss LF 1972. Phys. Rev. B 6:4718–40
  13. 13.  Uwe H, Yoshizaki R, Sakudo T, Izumi A, Uzumaki T 1985. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 24:335–37
  14. 14.  Lin X, Zhu ZW, Fauqué B, Behnia K 2013. Phys. Rev. X 3:021002
  15. 15.  Allen SJ, Jalan B, Lee S, Ouellette DG, Khalsa G et al. 2013. Phys. Rev. B 88:045114
  16. 16.  Lin X, Bridoux G, Gourgout A, Seyfarth G, Krämer S et al. 2014. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112:207002
  17. 17.  Takada Y 1980. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 49:1267–75
  18. 18.  Kirzhnits D, Maksimov E, Khomskii D 1973. J. Low Temp. Phys. 10:79
  19. 19.  Appel J 1969. Phys. Rev. 180:508–16
  20. 20.  Ohtomo A, Hwang HY 2004. Nature 427:423–26
  21. 21.  Reyren N et al. 2007. Science 317:1196–99
  22. 22.  Santander-Syro AF, Copie O, Kondo T, Fortuna F, Pailhès S et al. 2011. Nature 469:189–93
  23. 23.  Biscaras J, Bergeal N, Kushwaha A, Wolf T, Rastogi A et al. 2010. Nat. Commun. 1:89
  24. 24.  Müller KA, Burkard H 1979. Phys. Rev. B 19:3593–602
  25. 25.  Lin X, Gourgout A, Bridoux G, Jomard F, Pourret A et al. 2014. Phys. Rev. B 90:140508(R)
  26. 26.  Lin X, Rischau CW, van der Beek CJ, Fauqué B, Behnia K 2015. Phys. Rev. B 92:174504
  27. 27.  Rowley SE, Spalek LJ, Smith RP, Dean MPM Itoh M et al. 2014. Nat. Phys. 10:367–72
  28. 28.  Edge JM, Kedem Y, Aschauer U, Spaldin NA, Balatsky AV 2015. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115:247002
  29. 29.  Roussev R, Millis AJ 2003. Phys. Rev. B 67:014105
  30. 30.  Stucky A, Scheerer GW, Ren Z, Jaccard D, Poumirol J-M et al. 2016. Sci. Rep. 6:37582
  31. 31.  Rischau CW, Lin X, Grams CP, Finck D, Harms S et al. 2017. Nat. Phys. 13:643–49
  32. 32.  Edwards PP, Sienko MJ 1978. Phys. Rev. B 17:2575–81
  33. 33.  Behnia K 2015. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 27:375501
  34. 34.  Frederikse HPR, Hosler WR, Thurber WR, Babiskin J, Siebenmann PG 1967. Phys. Rev. 158:775–78
  35. 35.  Wemple SH, Didomenico M Jr., Jayaraman A 1969. Phys. Rev. 180:547–56
  36. 36.  van der Marel D, van Mechelen JLM, Mazin II 2011. Phys. Rev. B 84:205111
  37. 37.  Lin X, Fauqué B, Behnia K 2015. Science 349:945–48
  38. 38.  Lin X et al. 2017. NPJ Quantum Mater. 2:41
  39. 39.  Hwang HY, Iwasa Y, Kawasaki M, Keimer B, Nagaosa N, Tokura Y 2012. Nat. Mater. 11:103–13
  40. 40.  Zubko AP, Gariglio A, Gabay M, Ghosez P, Triscone JM 2011. Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 2:141–65
  41. 41.  Chandra P, Lonzarich GG, Rowley SE, Scott JF 2017. Rep. Prog. Phys. 80:112502
  42. 42.  Itoh M, Wang R, Narahara M, Kyomen T 2003. Ferroelectrics 285:3–17
  43. 43.  Bednorz JG, Müller KA 1984. Phys. Rev. Lett. 52:2289–92
  44. 44.  Müller KA, Thomas H, eds 1981. Structural Phase Transitions I. Topics in Current Physics Berlin: Springer-Verlag
  45. 45.  Aschauer U, Spaldin NA 2014. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26:122203
  46. 46.  Feng L, Shiga T, Shiomi J 2015. Appl. Phys. Exp. 8:071501
  47. 47.  Tadano T, Tsuneyuki S 2015. Phys. Rev. B 92:054301
  48. 48.  Lytle FW 1964. J. Appl. Phys. 35:2212–15
  49. 49.  Unoki H, Sakudo T 1967. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 23:546–52
  50. 50.  Fleury PA, Scott JF, Worlock JM 1968. Phys. Rev. Lett. 21:16–19
  51. 51.  Shirane G, Yamada Y 1969. Phys. Rev. 177:858–63
  52. 52.  Cowley RA 1996. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 354:2799–814
  53. 53.  Salje EKH, Gallardo MC, Jiménez J, Romero FJ, del Cerro J 1998. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 10:5535–43
  54. 54.  Müller KA, Berlinger V, Capizzi M, Gränicher H 1970. Solid State Commun. 8:549–53
  55. 55.  Sato M, Soejima Y, Ohama N, Okazaki A, Scheel HJ, Müller KA et al. 1985. Phase Transitions 5:207–18
  56. 56.  Bäuerle D, Rehwald W 1978. Solid State Commun. 27:1343–46
  57. 57.  Tao Q, Loret B, Xu B, Yang X, Rischau CW et al. 2016. Phys. Rev. B 94:035111
  58. 58.  de Lima BS, da Luz MS, Oliveira FS, Alves LMS, dos Santos CAM et al. 2015. Phys. Rev. B 91:045108
  59. 59.  Smirnova EP, Sotnikov AV, Kunze R, Weihnacht M, Kvyatkovskii OE, Lemanov VV 2005. Solid State Commun. 133:421–25
  60. 60.  McCalla E, Walter J, Leighton C 2016. Chem. Mater. 28:7973–81
  61. 61.  Fleury PA, Worlock JM 1968. Phys. Rev. 174:613–23
  62. 62.  Yamada Y, Shirane G 1969. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 26:396–403
  63. 63.  Uwe H, Sakudo T 1976. Phys. Rev. B 13:271–86
  64. 64.  Weaver WE 1959. J. Phys. Chem. Solids 11:275–77
  65. 65.  Cochran W, Cowley RA 1962. J. Phys. Chem. Solids 23:447–50
  66. 66.  Lemanov VV, Smirnova EP, Syrnikov PP, Tarakanov EA 1996. Phys. Rev. B 54:3151–57
  67. 67.  Itoh M, Wang R, Inaguma Y, Yamaguchi T, Shan YJ, Nakamura T 1999. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82:3540–43
  68. 68.  Hemberger J, Lunkenheimer P, Viana R, Bmer R, Loidl A 1995. Phys. Rev. B 52:13159–62
  69. 69.  Carpenter MA, Howard CJ, Knight KS, Zhang Z 2006. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18:10725–49
  70. 70.  Kleemann W, Albertini A, Kuss M, Lindner R 1997. Ferroelectrics 203:57–74
  71. 71.  Shigenari T, Abe K, Takemoto T, Sanaka O, Akaike T et al. 2006. Phys. Rev. B 74:174121
  72. 72.  Bianchi B, Kleemann W, Bednorz JG 1994. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 6:1229–38
  73. 73.  Wang YG, Kleemann W, Zhong WL, Zhang L 1998. Phys. Rev. B 57:13343–46
  74. 74.  Blinc R, Zalar B, Laguta VV, Itoh M 2005. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94:147601
  75. 75.  Beck H, Meier PF, Thellung A 1974. Phys. Stat. Sol. a 24:11
  76. 76.  Hehlen B, Pérou AL, Courtens E, Vacher R 1995. Phys. Rev. Lett. 75:2416
  77. 77.  Koreeda A, Takano R, Saikan S 2007. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99:265502
  78. 78.  Martelli V, Larrea Jiménez J, Continentino M, Baggio-Saitovitch E, Behnia K 2018. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120:125901
  79. 79.  Bussmann-Holder A 1997. Phys. Rev. B 56:10762
  80. 80.  Frederikse HPR, Thurber WR, Hosler WR 1964. Phys. Rev. 134:A442–45
  81. 81.  Tufte ON, Chapman P 1967. Phys. Rev. 155:796
  82. 82.  Baratoff A, Binnig G 1981. Physica B+C 108:1335–36
  83. 83.  Verma A, Kajdos AP, Cain TA, Stemmer S, Jena D 2014. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112:216601
  84. 84.  Himmetoglu B, Janotti A, Peelaers H, Alkauskas A, van de Walle CG 2014. Phys. Rev. B 90:241204(R)
  85. 85.  Mikheev E, Himmetogiu B, Kajdos AP, Moetakef P, Cain TA et al. 2015. Appl. Phys. Lett. 106:062102
  86. 86.  Yamanouchi C, Mizuguchi K, Sasaki WJ 1967. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 22:859–64
  87. 87.  Behnia K, Méasson MA, Kopelevich Y 2007. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98:166602
  88. 88.  Zhu Z, Yang H, Fauqué B, Kopelevich Y, Behnia K 2010. Nat. Phys. 6:26–29
  89. 89.  Fauqué B, Butch NP, Syers P, Paglione J, Wiedmann S et al. 2013. Phys. Rev. B 87:035133
  90. 90.  van Mechelen JLM, van der Marel D, Grimaldi C, Kuzmenko AB, Armitage NP et al. 2008. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100:226403
  91. 91.  Spinelli A, Torija MA, Liu C, Jan C, Leighton C 2010. Phys. Rev. B 81:155110
  92. 92.  Bhattacharya A, Skinner B, Khalsa G, Suslov AV 2016. Nat. Commun. 7:12974
  93. 93.  Okuda T, Nakanishi K, Miyasaka S, Tokura T 2001. Phys. Rev. B 63:113104
  94. 94.  Kadowaki K, Woods SB 1986. Solid State Commun. 58:507
  95. 95.  Mott NF Metal-Insulator Transitions London: Taylor & Francis
  96. 96.  Baber WG 1937. Proc. R. Soc. A 158:383
  97. 97.  Maslov DL, Chubukov AV 2017. Rep. Prog. Phys. 80:026503
  98. 98.  Epifanov YN, Levanyuk AP, Levanyuk GM 1981. Sov. Phys. Solid State 23:391
  99. 99.  Hussey NE, Takenaka K, Takagi H 2004. Philos. Mag. 84:2847–64
  100. 100.  Kolodiazhnyi T, Tachibana M, Kawaji H, Hwang J, Takayama-Muromachi E 2010. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104:147602
  101. 101.  Allgaier RS, Scanlon WW 1958. Phys. Rev. 111:1029–37
  102. 102.  Wemple SH 1965. Phys. Rev. 137:A1575
  103. 103.  Sakai A, Kanno T, Yotsuhashi S, Adachi H, Tokura Y 2009. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 48:097002
  104. 104.  Wemple SH, Jayaraman A, DiDomenico M Jr 1966. Phys. Rev. Lett. 17:142
  105. 105.  Eagles DM, Georgiev M, Petrova PC 1996. Phys. Rev. B 54:22–25
  106. 106.  Gervais F, Servoin J-L, Baratoff A, Bednorz JG, Binnig G 1993. Phys. Rev. B 47:8187–94
  107. 107.  Tainsh RJ, Andrikidis C 1986. Solid State Commun. 60:517
  108. 108.  Eagles DM 1986. Solid State Commun. 60:521
  109. 109.  Collignon C, Fauqué B, Cavanna A, Gennser U, Mailly D, Behnia K 2017. Phys. Rev. B 96:224506
  110. 110.  Noad H, Spanton EM, Nowack KC, Inoue H, Kim M et al. 2016. Phys. Rev. B 94:174516
  111. 111.  Pfeiffer ER, Schooley JF 1970. J. Low Temp. Phys. 2:333–52
  112. 112.  Rowley SE, Enderlein C, Ferreira de Oliveira J, Tompsett DA, Saitovitch B et al. 2018. arXiv:1801.08121
  113. 113.  Geballe TH, Kivelson SA 2014. The Proceedings of PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence P Chandra, P Coleman, G Kotliar, P Ong, D Stein, C Yupp. 127–33. Singapore: World Sci.
  114. 114.  Fernandes RM, Haraldsen JT, Wölfle P, Balatsky AV 2013. Phys. Rev. B 87:014510
  115. 115.  Trevisan TV, Schütt M, Fernandes RM 2018. Phys. Rev. B 98:094514
  116. 116.  Richter C, Boschker H, Dietsche W, Fillis-Tsirakis E, Jany R et al. 2013. Nature 502:528–31
  117. 117.  Swartz AG, Inoue H, Merz TA, Hikita Y, Raghu S et al. 2018. PNAS 115:1475–80
  118. 118.  Millis AJ, Sachdev S, Varma CM 1988. Phys. Rev. B 37:4975–86
  119. 119.  Abrikosov AA 1993. Physica C 214:107–10
  120. 120.  Radtke RJ, Levin K, Schüttler HB, Norman MR 1993. Phys. Rev. B 48:653–56
  121. 121.  Tolpygo SK, Lin JY, Gurvitch M, Hou SY, Phillips JM 1996. Phys. Rev. B 53:12454–61
  122. 122.  Blinkin AA, Derevyanko VV, Dovbnya AN, Sukharevaet TV, Finkel VA, Shlyakhov IN, et al 2006. Phys. Solid State 48:2037–45
  123. 123.  Fukuzumi Y, Mizuhashi K, Takenaka K, Uchida S 1996. Phys. Rev. Lett. 76:684–87
  124. 124.  Mackenzie AP, Maeno Y 2003. Rev. Mod. Phys. 75:657–712
  125. 125.  Shakeripour H, Petrovic C, Taillefer L 2009. New J. Phys. 11:055065
  126. 126.  Anderson PW 1959. J. Phys. Chem. Solids 11:26–30
  127. 127.  London F, London H 1935. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A Math. Phys. Sci. 149:71
  128. 128.  Abrikosov AA 1957. Sov. Phys. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 5:1442–52
  129. 129.  Hu C-R 1972. Phys. Rev. B 6:1756
  130. 130.  Ambler E, Colwell JH, Hosler WR, Schooley JF 1966. Phys. Rev. 148:280
  131. 131.  Collignon C 2017. De la densité des fluides électroniques dans deux oxydes supraconducteurs PhD Thesis, Université de Sherbrooke & Université Pierre et Marie Curie
  132. 132.  Homes CC, Dordevic SV, Valla T, Strongin M 2005. Phys. Rev. B 72:134517
  133. 133.  Thiemann M, Beutel MH, Dressel M, Lee-Hone NR, Broun DM et al. 2018. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120:237002
  134. 134.  Arce-Gamboa JR, Guzmán-Verri GG 2018. Phys. Rev. Mater 2:104804
  135. 135.  Kanasugi S, Yanase Y 2018. Phys. Rev. B 98:024521
  136. 136.  Wölfle P, Balatsky AV 2018. Phys. Rev. B 98:104505
  137. 137.  Ruhman J, Lee PA 2016. Phys. Rev. B 94:224515
  138. 138.  Leggett AJ 2011. Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 2:11–30
  139. 139.  Prakash O, Kumar A, Thamizhavel A, Ramakrishnan S 2017. Science 355:52–55
/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013144
Loading
Metallicity and Superconductivity in Doped Strontium Titanate
Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 10, 25 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013144
/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013144
/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013144
Loading

Data & Media loading...

  • Article Type: Review Article

Most Cited Most Cited RSS feed

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error