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The electrical and optical properties of the Mott insulator Sr2VO4 are investigated under high pressure on a phase pure polycrystalline sample. The system undergoes a pressure-driven insulator to metal transition (IMT) with a crossover between 20 and 24 GPa. The effect of pressure on the thermally driven electronic changes resulting from spin-orbital ordering transitions is studied. A multiorbital analysis of the low frequency optical conductivity spectra suggests a bandwidth-controlled and orbital selective nature of the Mott IMT transition. Dramatic enhancement of the low energy spectral weight in the high pressure correlated metallic phase is explained in terms of the formation of a quasiparticle peak in the spectral function of the narrow and degenerate dyz,zx orbitals. Our results overall establish a novel electronic phase diagram of tetragonal Sr2VO4. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The electrical and optical properties of the Mott insulator Sr2VO4 are investigated under high pressure on a phase pure polycrystalline sample. The system undergoes a pressure-driven insulator to metal transition (IMT) with a crossover between 20 and 24 GPa. The effect of pressure on the thermally driven electronic changes resulting from spin-orbital ordering transitions is studied. A multiorbital analysis of the low frequency optical conductivity spectra suggests a bandwidth-controlled and orbital selective nature of the Mott IMT transition. Dramatic enhancement of the low energy spectral weight in the high pressure correlated metallic phase is explained in terms of the formation of a quasiparticle peak in the spectral function of the narrow and degenerate d(yz,zx) orbitals. Our results overall establish a novel electronic phase diagram of tetragonal Sr2VO4.