Uniaxial stress effect on the electronic structure of quantum materials

TL;DR

This review discusses how uniaxial stress serves as a versatile tool for tuning and studying the electronic structures of various quantum materials, highlighting recent experimental advancements and diverse material applications.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent experimental methods combining uniaxial stress with quantum oscillation and photoemission techniques, and reviews studies on multiple quantum materials.

Findings

Uniaxial stress effectively controls electronic properties.

Recent technical progress enables detailed electronic structure studies.

Applications span semimetals, superconductors, and topological materials.

Abstract

Uniaxial stress has proven to be a powerful experimental tuning parameter for effectively controlling lattice, charge, orbital, and spin degrees of freedom in quantum materials. In addition, its ability to manipulate the symmetry of materials has garnered significant attention. Recent technical progress to combine uniaxial stress cells with quantum oscillation and angle-resolved photoemission techniques allowed to study the electronic structure as function of uniaxial stress. This review provides an overview on experimental advancements in methods and examines studies on diverse quantum materials, encompassing the semimetal WTe2, the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4, Fe-based superconductors, and topological materials.