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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 33, Issue 43, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ac1883
Keywords
oxygen vacancies; polar catastrophe; Kondo scattering; weak localization; magnetoresistance
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11704018, 51822101, 51861135104, 51771009]
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This study compared magnetotransport of amorphous and oxygen-annealed crystalline LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures at relatively high temperatures, finding that electrons from oxygen vacancies are localized at low temperatures and act as magnetic centers.
The relative significance of quantum conductivity correction and magnetic nature of electrons in understanding the intriguing low-temperature resistivity minimum and negative magnetoresistance (MR) of the two-dimensional electron gas at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces has been a long outstanding issue since its discovery. Here we report a comparative magnetotransport study on amorphous and oxygen-annealed crystalline LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures at a relatively high-temperature range, where the orbital scattering is largely suppressed by thermal fluctuations. Despite of a predominantly negative out-of-plane MR effect for both, the magnetotransport is isotropic for amorphous LaAlO3/SrTiO3 while strongly anisotropic and well falls into a two-dimensional quantum correction frame for annealed crystalline LaAlO3/SrTiO3. These results clearly indicate that a large portion of electrons from oxygen vacancies are localized at low temperatures, serving as magnetic centers, while the electrons from the polar field are only weakly localized due to constructive interference between time-reversed electron paths in the clean limit and no signature of magnetic nature is visible.
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