Filling dependence of electronic properties on the verge of metal-Mott-insulator transition in Sr1-xLaxTiO3.

Introducing holes (or partly eliminating electrons) in Mott-Hubbard insulator LaTiO 3 3 (with 3d 1 configuration) can be carried out by partial substitution of La with Sr, which produces the strongly correlated metallic phase. Systematic variation of electronic properties in Sr 1-x La x TiO 3 was investigated as a function of the 3d band filling (x) by measurements of resistivity, Hall coefficient, magnetic susceptibility, and specific heat. Up to the vicinity of the metal-insulator phase boundary (x c ∼0.95), Sr 1-x La x TiO 3 behaves as a Fermi liquid system where the carrier mass and scattering rate critically increase as the x=1 (LaTiO 3 ) insulator is approached