Promotion Project Uniting Strategic Program

26^th The group seminar of condensed matter physics and materials science in KYUTECH

[Place]Headquarters ridge 1F TV meeting room (Tobata) &Research management ridge 2F TV meeting room

[Date/Time]16:20-17:50, 4^th Oct. 2016

[Speaker]Prof. K. Matsuhira (Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering)

[Title] Electronic properties of iridates with significant electron correlation and strong spin-orbit coupling

[Abstract] Recently, 5d transition metal oxides have been actively investigated as an emergence of various electronic properties are expected by the competitive or concerted effect of electron correlation and spin-orbit interaction. In this seminar, firstly, I will give an overview of metal insulator transition of pyrochlore iridates Ln₂Ir₂O₇ on the basis of the paper “Metal–Insulator Transitions in Pyrochlore Oxides Ln₂Ir₂O₇: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80, 094701 (2011)” which is received 21st Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan. In addition, I will talk about recent result of geometrically frustrated iridate Ca₅Ir₃O₁₂.