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Controlling Mott insulator states has been a long-standing topic in condensed matter physics. Among various controlling parameters, two-dimensional (2D) confinement in epitaxial heterostructures has been demonstrated to convert the correlated metallic nature of ${\mathrm{SrVO}}_{3}$ into a Mott insulator by reducing the quantum well thickness. Here, we fabricate double quantum well (DQW) structures of ${\mathrm{SrVO}}_{3}$ with a magnetic barrier of ${\mathrm{EuTiO}}_{3}$ to tune the hybridization of wave functions by a magnetic field. A significant positive magnetoconductance is observed for DQWs with barriers thinner than 2 nm, while DQWs with thicker barriers do not show such large positive magnetoconductance, instead behaving as a parallel circuit of two single QWs. The observed positive magnetoconductance is accounted for in terms of enhanced hybridization of V $3d$ orbitals across the ${\mathrm{EuTiO}}_{3}$ barrier under a magnetic field, where the barrier height is reduced by the Zeeman splitting of Ti $3d$ bands in forced ferromagnetic ordering of localized $4f$ electrons on $\mathrm{E}{\mathrm{u}}^{2+}$ sites.
Authors
- N. Takahara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1009-9388)
- M. Kawasaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-4812)
- Kei Takahashi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5996-8532)
- Yoshinori Tokura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2732-4983)
Institutions
- Kanazawa University (JP)
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (JP)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. B./Physical review. B
- Published
- 2025-09-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/kmj2-rs3n
- Primary Topic
- Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00