Abstract
The different occupancy of electronic orbitals, the so-called orbital polarization, is a key parameter determining electric and magnetic properties of materials. Here we report on the demonstration of in operando voltage-controlled tuning of the orbital occupation in $\mathrm{LaNi}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ epitaxial thin films grown on piezoelectric substrates. The different static contributions to the orbital occupation are disentangled, namely the epitaxial strain and the surface symmetry breaking, and the superimposed electric-field controlled orbital polarization are determined by x-ray linear dichroism at the Ni ${L}_{2,3}$ edges. The voltage-controlled orbital polarization allows changing the orbital polarization by about an additional 50%.
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