The strongly correlated Ir oxide BaIrO
3 shows a weak ferromagnetism and a gap-type order below the transition temperature
Tc(= 180 K at ambient pressure). An external pressure decreases
Tc by a rate of -29 K/GPa, removes the metallic conduction below
Tc, and suppresses the nonlinear conduction at 4.2 K. These observations are highly incompatible with a charge-density-wave state that was believed to be the origin for the 180-K transition. An alternative model for the transition is proposed, which can be regarded as a transition from the Mott-insulator to the charge-transferred insulator transition.
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