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American Institute of Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, 17(115), p. 17E108

DOI: 10.1063/1.4860016

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Magnetic orders of LaTiO$_3$ under epitaxial strain: a first-principles study

Journal article published in 2013 by Yakui Weng, Xin Huang, Yankun Tang, Shuai Dong
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Abstract

Perovskite LaTiO$_3$ bulk is a typical Mott-insulator with G-type antiferromagnetic order. In this work, the biaxial strain effects on the ground magnetic order of LaTiO$_3$ films grown on various substrates have been studied. For the compressive strain, LaTiO$_3$ films grown on LaAlO$_3$, LaGaO$_3$, and SrTiO$_3$ substrates undergo a phase transition from the original G-type antiferromagnet to A-type antiferromagnet. The underlying physical mechanisms are the lattice distortions tunned by strain. While for the tensile strain, the BaTiO$_3$ and LaScO$_3$ substrates have been tested, which show a tendency to transit the LaTiO$_3$ to the C-type antiferromagnet. Furthermore, our calculations find that the magnetic transitions under epitaxial strain do not change the insulating fact of LaTiO$_3$. ; Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures. Proceeding of the 58th MMM conference, accepted