Designing spin and orbital sources of Berry curvature at oxide interfaces
Edouard Lesne (TU Delft - QN/Steele Lab, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft)
Y.G. Saglam (Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QN/Steele Lab)
Raffaele Battilomo (Universiteit Utrecht)
Maria Teresa Mercaldo (University of Salerno)
T.C. van Thiel (TU Delft - QN/Groeblacher Lab, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft)
U. Filippozzi (TU Delft - QN/Caviglia Lab, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft)
Canio Noce (University of Salerno)
G.A. Steele (Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QN/Steele Lab)
A. Caviglia (Université de Genève)
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Abstract
Quantum materials can display physical phenomena rooted in the geometry of electronic wavefunctions. The corresponding geometric tensor is characterized by an emergent field known as the Berry curvature (BC). Large BCs typically arise when electronic states with different spin, orbital or sublattice quantum numbers hybridize at finite crystal momentum. In all the materials known to date, the BC is triggered by the hybridization of a single type of quantum number. Here we report the discovery of the first material system having both spin- and orbital-sourced BC: LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces grown along the [111] direction. We independently detect these two sources and probe the BC associated to the spin quantum number through the measurements of an anomalous planar Hall effect. The observation of a nonlinear Hall effect with time-reversal symmetry signals large orbital-mediated BC dipoles. The coexistence of different forms of BC enables the combination of spintronic and optoelectronic functionalities in a single material.
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