Abstract
We report that the volume of an orbital-ordered Mott insulator Ca2RuO4 is purely changed by an electrical current at constant temperature and pressure. The observed giant electromechanical response is an intrinsic non-equilibrium property in currents, not from an extrinsic self-heating effect, as is clearly demonstrated by combined transport and synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction experiments. The underlying mechanism is ascribed to a suppression of orbital order by currents, significantly differing from conventional piezoelectric or electrostrictive effect in dielectric materials. Our results imply a novel non-equilibrium equation of state, in which an equilibrium quantity is described by a non-equilibrium variable, and thus provide fundamental data for investigating the evolving field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
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