Abstract
A paradigmatic case of multi-band Mott physics including spin-orbit and Hund’s coupling is realized in Ca2RuO4. Progress in understanding the nature of this Mott insulating phase has been impeded by the lack of knowledge about the low-energy electronic structure. Here we provide—using angle-resolved photoemission electron spectroscopy—the band structure of the paramagnetic insulating phase of Ca2RuO4 and show how it features several distinct energy scales. Comparison to a simple analysis of atomic multiplets provides a quantitative estimate of the Hund’s coupling J=0.4 eV. Furthermore, the experimental spectra are in good agreement with electronic structure calculations performed with Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. The crystal field stabilization of the dxy orbital due to c-axis contraction is shown to be essential to explain the insulating phase. These results underscore the importance of multi-band physics, Coulomb interaction and Hund’s coupling that together generate the Mott insulating state of Ca2RuO4.
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Introduction
Electronic instabilities driving superconductivity, density wave orders and Mott metal–insulator transitions produce a characteristic energy scale below an onset temperature1,2,3. Typically, this energy scale manifests itself as a gap in the electronic band structure around the Fermi level. Correlated electron systems have a tendency for avalanches, where one instability triggers or facilitates another4. The challenge is then to disentangle the driving and secondary phenomena. In many Mott insulating systems, such as La2CuO4 and Ca2RuO4, long-range magnetic order appears as a secondary effect. In such cases, the energy scale associated with the Mott transition is much larger than that of magnetism. The Mott physics of the half-filled single-band 3d electron system La2CuO4 emerges due to a high ratio of Coulomb interaction to band width. This simple scenario does not apply to Ca2RuO4. There the orbital and spin degrees of freedom of the 2/3-filled (with four electrons) t2g-manifold implies that Hund’s coupling enters as an important energy scale5. Moreover, recent studies of the antiferromagnetic ground state of Ca2RuO4 suggest that spin–orbit interaction also plays a significant role in shaping the magnetic moments6,7,8, as well as the splitting of the t2g states9.
Compared to Sr2RuO4 (refs 10, 11), which may realize a chiral p-wave superconducting state, relatively little is known about the electronic band structure of Ca2RuO4 (ref. 12). Angle integrated photoemission spectroscopy has revealed the existence of Ru states with binding energy 1.6 eV (ref. 13)—an energy scale much larger than the Mott gap ∼0.4 eV estimated from transport experiments14. Moreover, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) experiments on Ca1.8Sr0.2RuO4—the critical composition for the metal–insulator transition—have led to contradicting interpretations15,16 favouring or disfavouring the so-called orbital-selective scenario where a Mott gap opens only on a subset of bands17,18. Extending this scenario to Ca2RuO4 would imply orbital-dependent Mott gaps18. The electronic structure should thus display two Mott energy scales (one of dxy and another for the dxz, dyz states). A different explanation for the Mott state of Ca2RuO4 is that the c-axis compression of the S-Pbca insulating phase induces a crystal field stabilization of the dxy orbital, leading to half-filled dxz, dyz bands and completely filled dxy states19,20. In this case, only one Mott gap on the dxz, dyz bands will be present with band insulating dxy states. The problem has defied a solution due to a lack of experimental knowledge about the low-energy electronic structure.
Here we present an ARPES study of the electronic structure in the paramagnetic insulating state (at 150 K) of Ca2RuO4. Three different bands—labelled , and band—are identified and their orbital character is discussed through comparison to first-principle Density Functional Theory (DFT) band structure calculations. The observed band structure is incompatible with a single insulating energy scale acting uniformly on all orbitals. A phenomenological Green’s function incorporating an enhanced crystal field and a spectral gap in the self-energy is used to describe the observed band structure on a qualitative level. Further insight is gained from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) calculations including Hund’s coupling and Coulomb interaction. The Hund’s coupling splits the dxy band allowing quantitative estimate of this parameter. The Coulomb interaction is mainly responsible for the insulating behaviour of the dxz, dyz bands. The experimental results, together with our theoretical analysis, clarify the origin of the Mott phase in the multi-orbital system Ca2RuO4. Furthermore, they provide a natural explanation as to why previous experiments have identified different values for the energy gap.
Results
Crystal and electronic structure
Ca2RuO4 is a layered perovskite, where the Mott transition coincides with a structural transition at Ts∼350 K, below which the c-axis lattice constant is reduced. We study the paramagnetic insulating state (T=150 K) of Ca2RuO4 with orthorhombic S-Pbca crystal structure (a=5.39 Å, b=5.59 Å and c=11.77 Å). It is worth noting that due to this nonsymmorphic crystal structure, Ca2RuO4 could not form a Mott insulating ground state at other fillings than 1/3 and 2/3 (ref. 21). In Fig. 1, the experimentally measured electronic structure is compared to a first-principle DFT calculation of the bare non-interacting bands. We observe two sets of states: near the Fermi level the electronic structure is comprised of Ru-dominated bands, while oxygen bands are present only for =E−EF<−2.5 eV. Up to an overall energy shift, good agreement between the calculated DFT and observed Ca2RuO4 oxygen band structure is found.
Non-dispersing ruthenium bands
The structure of the ruthenium bands near the Fermi level is the main topic of this paper, as these are the states influenced by Mott physics. A compilation of ARPES spectra, recorded along high-symmetry directions, is presented in Figs 2 and 3a. In consistency with previous angle-integrated photoemission experiments13, a broad and flat band is found around the binding energy =−1.7 eV. However, we also observe spectral weight closer to the Fermi level (∼−0.8±0.2 eV), especially near the zone boundaries (see Fig. 2a,d). These two flat ruthenium bands (labelled and ) are revealed as a double peak structure in the energy distribution curves—Fig. 2c,f. Between the band and the Fermi level, the spectral weight is suppressed. In fact, complete suppression of spectral weight is found for −0.2 eV<<0 eV (see Fig. 2c). This energy scale is in reasonable agreement with the activation energy ∼0.4 eV extracted from resistivity experiments14.
Fast dispersing ruthenium bands
In addition to the flat and bands, a fast dispersing circular-shaped band is observed (Fig. 3b) around the Γ-point (zone centre) in the interval −2.5 eV<<−2 eV—see Figs 2a,b and 3a. A weaker replica of this band is furthermore found around Γ2 (Fig. 3a,b). The band velocity, estimated from momentum distribution curves (Fig. 2a), yields v=(2.6±0.4) eV Å. As this band, which we label , disperses away from the zone centre, it merges with the most intense flat band. From the data, it is difficult to conclude with certainty whether the band disperses between the and bands. As this feature is weak in the spectra recorded with 78 eV photons (Fig. 2b), it makes sense to label and as distinct bands.
Orbital band character
Next we discuss the orbital character of the observed bands. As a first step, comparison to the band structure calculations is made. Although details can vary depending on exact methodology, all band structure calculations of Ca2RuO4 find a single fast dispersing branch22,23,24,25. Our DFT calculation reveals that the fast dispersing band has predominantly dxy character (Fig. 4a). We thus conclude that the in-plane extended dxy orbital is responsible for the band. Within the DFT calculation, the dxz and dyz bare bands are relatively flat throughout the entire zone. This is also the characteristic of the observed band. It is thus natural to assign a dominant dxz, dyz contribution to this band. The orbital character of the band is not obviously derived from comparisons to DFT calculations. In principle, photoemission matrix element effects carry information about orbital symmetries. As shown in Fig. 2, the band displays strong matrix element effects as a function of photon energy and photon polarization. However, probing with 65 eV light, the spectral weight of the band is not displaying any regularity within the (kx, ky) plane—see Supplementary Fig. 1. The contrast between linear horizontal and vertical light therefore vary strongly with momentum. This fact precludes any simple conclusions based on matrix element effects.
Discussion
Having explored the orbital character of the electronic states, we discuss the band structure in a more general context. Bare band structure calculations, not including Coulomb interaction, find that states at the Fermi level have dxy and dxz/dyz character (see Fig. 4a). Including a uniform Coulomb interaction U results in a single Mott gap acting equally on all orbitals. Generally, this produces one single flat band inconsistent with the observation of two distinct flat bands ( and ). Adding in a phenomenological manner orbital-dependent Mott gaps to the self-energy produces two sets of flat bands. For example, one can introduce Δxy=0.2 eV and Δxz,yz=1.5 eV to mimic the and bands. However, such Mott gaps are not shifting the bottom of the fast V-shaped dispersion to the observed position. Better agreement with the observed band structure is found, when a Mott gap Δxz,yz=1.55 eV is added to the self-energy of the dxz, dyz states and a crystal field-induced downward shift ΔCF=0.6 eV of the dxy states is introduced. As shown in Fig. 3c, this reproduces two flat bands and simultaneously positions correctly the fast dispersing band. From the fact that the bottom of the band is observed well below the band, we conclude that an—interaction enhanced—crystal field splitting is shifting the dxy band below the Fermi level.
A similar structure emerges from DMFT calculations26 including U=2.3 eV and Hund’s coupling J=0.4 eV. The obtained spectral function (Fig. 3d) is generally in good agreement with the experimental observations (Fig. 3a). Both the and bands are reproduced with the previously assigned dxy and dxz, dyz orbital character (Fig. 4b,c). The band is also present in the DMFT calculation around −0.5 eV<<0 eV. Even though it is not smoothly connected with the band, it has in fact dxy character (Fig. 4b). By analysing the multiplet eigenstates (Fig. 4d) and electronic transitions in the atomic limit of an isolated t2g shell, we can provide a simple qualitative picture of both observations: (i) the energy splitting between the and bands having dxy orbital character, which we find to be of order 3J, and (ii) the dxz and dyz orbital-driven band splitting across the Fermi level, found to be of order U+J. Within this framework, the atomic ground state has a fully occupied dxy orbital, while the dxz, dyz orbitals are occupied by two electrons with parallel spins (S=1) and thus effectively half-filled. The Mott gap developing in the dxz, dyz doublet is thus U+J in the atomic limit5, corresponding to the electronic transition where one electron is either removed from this doublet or added to this doublet (leading to a double occupancy). In contrast, there are two possible atomic configuration that can be reached when removing one electron out of the fully filled dxy orbital (Fig. 4d). One of these final states (high spin) has S=3/2, L=0 (corresponding pictorially to one electron in each orbital all with parallel spins), while the other (low spin) has S=1/2, L=2 (corresponding to the case when the remaining electron in the dxy orbital has a spin opposite to those in dxz, dyz). The energy difference between these two configurations is 3J, thus accounting for the observed ARPES splitting between the two dxy removal peaks. Furthermore, this analysis allows to assess, from the experimental value of this splitting ∼1.2 eV, that the effective Hund’s coupling for the t2g shell is of the order of 0.4 eV. This is consistent with previous theoretical work in ruthenates27,28 and provides a direct quantitative experimental estimate of this parameter. Because the high spin state is energetically favourable with respect to the low spin state (by ∼3J), it can be assigned to the band near the Fermi level, while the low spin state can be assigned to the band (See ref. 5 for a detailed description of the atomic multiplets of the t2g Kanamori Hamiltonian). The Hund’s coupling has thus profound impact on the electronic structure of the paramagnetic insulating state of Ca2RuO4. The fact that Hund’s coupling mainly influence the dxy electronic states highlights orbital differentiation as a key characteristic of the Mott transition. Moreover, our findings emphasize the importance of the crystal field stabilization of the dxy orbital19,20. To further understand the interplay between U and J, detailed experiments through the metal–insulator transition of Ca2−xSrxRuO4 would be of great interest.
Methods
Experimental
High-quality single crystals of Ca2RuO4 were grown by the flux-feeding floating-zone technique29,30. ARPES experiments were carried out at the SIS, I05 and MAESTRO beamlines at the Swiss Light Source, the Diamond Light Source and the Advanced Light Source. Both horizontal and vertical electron analyser geometry were used. Samples were cleaved in situ using the top-post cleaving method. All spectra were recorded in the paramagnetic insulating phase (T=150 K), resulting in an overall energy resolution of approximately 50 meV. To avoid charging effects, care was taken to ensure electronic grounding of the sample. Using silver epoxy (EPO-TEK E4110) cured just below T=350 K (inside the S-Pbca phase—space group 61) for 12 h, no detectable charging was observed when varying the photon flux.
DFT band structure calculations
We computed electronic structures using the projector augmented wave method31,32 as implemented in the VASP33,34 package within the generalized gradient approximation35. Experimental lattice constants (a=5.39 Å, b=5.59 Å and c=11.77 Å) and a 12 × 10 × 4 Monkhorst-Pack k-point mesh was used in the computations with a cutoff energy of 400 eV. The spin–orbit coupling effects are included self-consistently. In order to model Mott physics, we constructed a first-principles tight-binding model Hamiltonian, where the Bloch matrix elements were calculated by projecting onto the Wannier orbitals36,37, which used the VASP2WANNIER90 interface38. We used Ru t2g orbitals to construct Wannier functions without using the maximizing localization procedure. The resulting 24-band spin–orbit coupled model with Bloch Hamiltonian matrix reproduces well the first-principle electronic structure near the Fermi energy. To model the spectral function, we added a gap with a leading divergent 1/ω term to the self-energy . To the Hamiltonian, we added a shift . and are projectors on the dxy and dxz, dyz orbitals, respectively, while Δxz,yz is the weight of the poles and ΔCF mimics an enhanced crystal field. From the imaginary part of the Green’s function with the two adjustable parameters ΔCF and Δxz,yz, we obtained the spectral function A(k, ω) by taking the trace over all orbital and spin degrees of freedom.
DFT+DMFT band structure calculations
We calculate the electronic structure within DFT+DMFT using the full potential implementation39 and the TRIQS library40,41. In the DFT part of the computation, the Wien2k package42 was used. The local-density approximation (LDA) is used for the exchange-correlation functional. For projectors on the correlated t2g orbital in DFT+DMFT, Wannier-like t2g orbitals are constructed out of Kohn–Sham bands within the energy window (−2, 1) eV with respect to the Fermi energy. We use the full rotationally invariant Kanamori interaction in order to ensure a correct description of atomic multiplets5. To solve the DMFT quantum impurity problem, we used the strong-coupling continuous-time Monte Carlo impurity solver43 as implemented in the TRIQS library44. In the U and J parameters of the Kanamori interaction, we used U=2.3 eV and J=0.4 eV, which successfully explains the correlated phenomena of other ruthenate such as Sr2RuO4 and ARuO3 (A=Ca, Sr) within the DFT+DMFT framework27,28.
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D.S., J.C., C.G.F. and H.M.R. acknowledge support by the Swiss National Science Foundation and its Sinergia network MPBH. Y.S. is supported by the Wenner-Gren foundation. T.-R.C. and H.-T.J. are supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, National Cheng Kung University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan. T.-R.C. and H.-T.J. also thank NCHC, CINC-NTU and NCTS, Taiwan for technical support. A.G. and M.K. acknowledge the support of the European Research Council (ERC-319286 QMAC, ERC-617196 CORRELMAT) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (NCCR MARVEL). S.M. acknowledges support by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant No. P2ELP2-155357). This work was performed at the SIS, I05 and MAESTRO beamlines at the Swiss Light Source, Diamond Light Source and Advanced Light Source, respectively. We acknowledge Diamond Light Source for time on beamline I05 under proposal SI14617 and SI12926 and thank all the beamline staff for technical support. The Advanced Light Source is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. M.K. and A.G. are grateful to M. Ferrero, O. Parcollet and P. Seth for discussions and support.
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R.F., A.V. and V.G. grew and prepared the Ca2RuO4 single crystals. D.S., C.G.F., M.S., F.C., Y.S., G.G., M.G., H.M.R., N.C.P., C.E.M., M.S., M.H., T.K.K. and J.C., prepared and carried out the ARPES experiment. D.S., C.G.F., F.C. and J.C. performed the data analysis. T.-R.C., H.-T.J. and T.N. made the DFT band structure calculations. M.K. and A.G. performed and analysed the DMFT calculations. All authors contributed to the manuscript.
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