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Optical study of pressure-induced insulator-to-metal transitions in correlated electron systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2010
Abstract
Understanding the physics of strongly correlated systems is one of the most challenging tasks of condensed matter research. Besides displaying extremely interesting physical behaviour, their sensitivity to small changes in external parameters makes them highly appealing for future technological applications. That sensitivity is attributed to the small value of the electron bandwidth W in comparison with other relevant energy scales such as the electron correlation U or the charge transfer (CT) energy gap Δ. While being a challenging experimental technique, the application of high pressure (HP) through a diamond anvil cell (DAC) permits to tune the bandwidth W continuously and without introducing impurities or disorder. Because of the small throughput of DACs, infrared (IR) measurements at HP take great advantage of the use of a high-brightness source as a synchrotron IR source (Lupi et al. 2007). We review here our latest results on several correlated insulators of the Mott–Hubbard and CT type.
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