An unusual metal-insulator transition: bis(tetramethyltetraselenafulvalenium)-perrhenate (TMTSF2ReO4)

One-Dimensional Alternating Extended Hubbard Model at Quarter-Filling and Its Applications to Structural Instabilities of Organic Conductors

The one-dimensional extended Hubbard model with lattice dimerization and alternated site potentials is analyzed using the renormalization group method. The coupling of electrons to structural degrees of freedom such as the anion lattice and acoustic phonons is investigated to obtain the possible instabilities against the formation of lattice superstructures. Applications of the theory to anionic and spin-Peierls instabilities in the Fabre and Bechgaard salts series of organic conductors and ordered alloys are presented and discussed.

Infrared spectroscopy of the charge ordering transition of Na0.5CoO2

We report infrared reflectivity study of charge ordering in a Na0.5CoO2 single crystal. In comparison with x=0.7 and 0.85 compounds, we found that the effective carrier density increases systematically with decreasing Na contents. The charge ordering transition only affects the optical spectra below 1000 cm(-1). A hump near 800 cm(-1) develops below 100 K, which is accompanied by the appearance of new lattice modes as well as the strong antiresonance feature of phonon spectra. These observations signify a polaronic characteristic of charge carriers. Below T(co), an optical gap develops at the magnitude of 2Delta approximately 3.5k(B)T(co) (T<<T(co)), evidencing an insulating charge density wave ground state.