A continuous metal-insulator transition driven by spin correlations

Level Correlations for Metal-Insulator Transition

We study the level-statistics of a disordered system undergoing the Anderson type metal-insulator transition. The disordered Hamiltonian is a sparse random matrix in the site representation and the statistics is obtained by taking an ensemble of such matrices. It is shown that the transition of levels due to change of various parameters e.g. disorder, system size, hopping rate can be mapped to ...

Metal-insulator transition by suppression of spin fluctuations

Spin valve effect across the metal-insulator transition in V2O3

The magnetoresistance of Ni/V2O3/Py devices shows interesting behavior in the temperature dependence across the V2O3 metal-insulator transition. A spin-valve effect ( 0.1%) is found below the transition temperature when V2O3 is in the insulating phase. Contrary to expectation, the spin-valve effect disappears when device is heated above 150 K and V2O3 is in the metallic state. At these temperat...

Pressure-driven insulator-metal transition in cubic phase UO2

Understanding the electronic properties of actinide oxides under pressure poses a great challenge for experimental and theoretical studies. Here, we investigate the electronic structure of cubic phase uranium dioxide at different volumes using a combination of density functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory. The ab initio calculations predict an orbital-selective insulator-metal trans...

Electrically driven reversible insulator-metal phase transition in 1T-TaS2.

In this work, we demonstrate abrupt, reversible switching of resistance in 1T-TaS2 using dc and pulsed sources, corresponding to an insulator-metal transition between the insulating Mott and equilibrium metallic states. This transition occurs at a constant critical resistivity of 7 mohm-cm regardless of temperature or bias conditions and the transition time is significantly smaller than abrupt ...