Electric-pulse-driven electronic phase separation, insulator-metal transition, and possible superconductivity in a Mott insulator

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Vaju, Cristian [1 ]
Cario, Laurent [1 ]
Corraze, Benoit [1 ]
Janod, Etienne [1 ]
Dubost, Vincent [2 ]
Cren, Tristan [2 ]
Roditchev, Dimitri [2 ]
Braithwaite, Daniel [3 ]
Chauvet, Olivier [1 ]
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[1] Univ Nantes, CNRS, Inst Mat Jean Rouxel IMN, F-44322 Nantes 3, France
[2] Univ Paris 06, CNRS UMR 75 88, INSP, F-75015 Paris, France
[3] CEA, SPSMS, INAC, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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10.1002/adma.200702967
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Experimental evidence of a nonvolatile electric-pulse-induced insulator-tometal transition and possible superconductivity in the Mott insulator GaTa4Se8 is reported. Scanning tunneling microscopy experiments show that this unconventional response of the system to short electric pulses arises from a nanometer-scale electronic phase separation generated in the bulk material (see figure).
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