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Geometrical lattice engineering of complex oxide heterostructures: a designer approach to emergent quantum states

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Epitaxial heterostructures composed of complex oxides have fascinated researchers for over a decade as they offer multiple degrees of freedom to unveil emergent many-body phenomena often unattainable in bulk. Recently, apart from stabilizing such artificial structures along the conventional [001]-direction, tuning the growth direction along unconventional crystallographic axes has been highlighted as a promising route to realize novel quantum many-body phases. Here we illustrate this rapidly developing field of geometrical lattice engineering with the emphasis on a few prototypical examples of the recent experimental efforts to design complex oxide heterostructures along the (111) orientation for quantum phase discovery and potential applications.

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The authors would like to thank D. Khomskii and G. Fiete for enlightening discussions. J.C. was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative through Grant No. GBMF4534. X.L. and S.M. were supported by the Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-SC0012375, and Y.C. and M.K. were supported by the DOD-ARO under Grant No. 0402–17291.

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Liu, X., Middey, S., Cao, Y. et al. Geometrical lattice engineering of complex oxide heterostructures: a designer approach to emergent quantum states. MRS Communications 6, 133–144 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2016.24

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