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2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Development of high-frequency-compatible scanning tunneling microscope and application to the electronic phase separation in strongly correlated electron systems

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14350040
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Applied physics, general
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

HANAGURI Tetsuo  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Associate Professor, 大学院・新領域創成科学研究科, 助教授 (40251326)

Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2003
Keywordsstrongly-correlated-electron system / scanning tunneling microscopy / filling-control / bandwidth-control / electronic phase separation
Research Abstract

In this study, we aimed to study the electronic phase separations, which are expected in strongly-correlated-electron systems. The strongly-correlated-electron systems are based on so-called Mott insulators and show many novel phenomena such as high-temperature superconductivity. The study of electronic phase separations demands an experimental technique with nano-scale spatial resolution. Therefore, we used scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS). Also, we tried to develop a new technique, alternating-current STM, to study less conducting samples.
The tendency to the electronic phase separation should be strongest around the metal-to-Mott-insulator transition (Mott transition). There are two types of Mott transitions, namely, filling-controlled and bandwidth-controlled Mott transitions. We performed low temperature STM/STS on Ca_<2-x>Na_xCuO_2Cl_2 and Ni(S, Se)_2 which are filling- and bandwidth-controlled systems, respectively. We found that there is marked nano-scale electronic inhomogeneity around the filling-control Mott transition. The apparently "metallic" region increases with increasing doping. This result suggests that the metal-insulator transition in the filling-controlled system is related to the percolation. On the contrary, electronic states of the bandwidth-controlled system are relatively uniform even near the Mott transition. In Ca_<2-x>Na_xCuO_2Cl_2, which is one of the high-temperature superconductors, we found a periodic modulation of the electronic states with a checkerboard-like pattern in a so-called pseudogap phase.
As to the alternating-current STM, though we have not completed the construction, we designed a prototype of the high-frequency-compatible STM which can be equipped with semi-rigid coaxial cables. We believe that this new STM will work in near future.

  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2004 2003

All Journal Article (12 results)

  • [Journal Article] A 'checkerboard' electronic crystal state in lightly hole-doped Ca_2_xNaCuO_2Cl_22004

    • Author(s)
      T.Hanaguri et al.
    • Journal Title

      Nature 430

      Pages: 1001-1005

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Evolution of local electronic states from a metal to a correlated insulator in a NiS_2_xSe_x solid solution2004

    • Author(s)
      K.Iwaya et al.
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review B 70

      Pages: 161103

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Imaging nano-scale electronic inhomogeneity in lightly doped Mott insulator Ca_2_xNa_xCuO_2Cl_22004

    • Author(s)
      Y.Kohsaka et al.
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review Letters 93

      Pages: 097004

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] A 'checkerboard' electronic crystal state in lightly hole-doped Ca_<2-x>Na_xCuO_2Cl_22004

    • Author(s)
      T.Hanaguri et al.
    • Journal Title

      Nature 430

      Pages: 1001

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Evolution of local electronic states from a metal to a correlated insulator in a NiS_<2-x>Se_x solid solution2004

    • Author(s)
      K.Iwaya et al.
    • Journal Title

      Phys.Rev.B 70

      Pages: 161103

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Imaging nano-scale electronic inhomogeneity in lightly doped Mott insulator Ca_<2-x>Na_xCuO_2Cl_22004

    • Author(s)
      Y.Kohsaka et al.
    • Journal Title

      Phys.Rev.Lett. 93

      Pages: 097004

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Observations of electronic inhomogeneity in heavily Pb-doped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_y single crystals by scanning tunneling microscopy2003

    • Author(s)
      G.Kinoda et al.
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review B 67

      Pages: 224509

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Electronic structures of two-phase microstructures alpha and beta in heavily Pb-doped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_y single crystals investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy2003

    • Author(s)
      G.Kinoda et al.
    • Journal Title

      Applied Physics Letters 83

      Pages: 1178・1180

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より2003

    • Author(s)
      T.Hanaguri et al.
    • Journal Title

      Review of Scientific Instruments 74

      Pages: 4436-4441

  • [Journal Article] Observations of electronic inhomogeneity in heavily Pb-doped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_y single crystals by scanning tunneling microscopy2003

    • Author(s)
      G.Kinoda et al.
    • Journal Title

      Phys.Rev.B 67

      Pages: 224509

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Electronic structures of two-phase microstructures alpha and beta in heavily Pb-doped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_y single crystals investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy2003

    • Author(s)
      G.Kinoda et al.
    • Journal Title

      Appl. Phys. Lett. 83

      Pages: 1178

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] An instrument for low- and variable-temperature millimeter-wave surface impedance measurements under magnetic fields2003

    • Author(s)
      T.Hanaguri et al.
    • Journal Title

      Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74

      Pages: 4436

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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