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Bordelon MM, Wang X, Pajerowski DM, Banerjee A, Sherwin M, Brown CM, Eldeeb MS, Petersen T, Hozoi L, Rӧßler UK, Mourigal M, Wilson SD. Magnetic properties and signatures of ordering in triangular lattice antiferromagnet KCeO 2. Phys Rev B 2021; 104:10.1103/PhysRevB.104.094421. [PMID: 37780895 PMCID: PMC10540645 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.104.094421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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The magnetic ground state and the crystalline electric field level scheme of the triangular lattice antiferromagnet KCeO 2 are investigated. Below T N = 300 mK, KCeO 2 develops signatures of magnetic order in specific heat measurements and low energy inelastic neutron scattering data. Trivalent Ce 3 + ions in the D 3 d local environment of this compound exhibit large splittings among the lowest three 4 f 1 Kramers doublets defining for the free ion the J = 5 / 2 sextet and a ground state doublet with dipole character, consistent with recent theoretical predictions in M. S. Eldeeb et al. Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 124001 (2020). An unexplained, additional local mode appears, and potential origins of this anomalous mode are discussed.
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- Mitchell M. Bordelon
- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Physics and Center for Terahertz Science and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, USA
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- Department of Physics and Center for Terahertz Science and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, Leibniz IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, Leibniz IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, Leibniz IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, Leibniz IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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Majumder M, Manna RS, Simutis G, Orain JC, Dey T, Freund F, Jesche A, Khasanov R, Biswas PK, Bykova E, Dubrovinskaia N, Dubrovinsky LS, Yadav R, Hozoi L, Nishimoto S, Tsirlin AA, Gegenwart P. Breakdown of Magnetic Order in the Pressurized Kitaev Iridate β-Li_{2}IrO_{3}. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:237202. [PMID: 29932706 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.237202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Temperature-pressure phase diagram of the Kitaev hyperhoneycomb iridate β-Li_{2}IrO_{3} is explored using magnetization, thermal expansion, magnetostriction, and muon spin rotation measurements, as well as single-crystal x-ray diffraction under pressure and ab initio calculations. The Néel temperature of β-Li_{2}IrO_{3} increases with the slope of 0.9 K/GPa upon initial compression, but the reduction in the polarization field H_{c} reflects a growing instability of the incommensurate order. At 1.4 GPa, the ordered state breaks down upon a first-order transition, giving way to a new ground state marked by the coexistence of dynamically correlated and frozen spins. This partial freezing in the absence of any conspicuous structural defects may indicate the classical nature of the resulting pressure-induced spin liquid, an observation paralleled to the increase in the nearest-neighbor off-diagonal exchange Γ under pressure.
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- M Majumder
- Experimental Physics VI, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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- Experimental Physics VI, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, IIT Tirupati, Tirupati 517506, India
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- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Experimental Physics VI, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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- Experimental Physics VI, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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- Experimental Physics VI, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Crystallography, Material Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Laboratory of Crystallography, Material Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, IFW Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, IFW Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, IFW Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Experimental Physics VI, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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- Experimental Physics VI, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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Fabbris G, Meyers D, Xu L, Katukuri VM, Hozoi L, Liu X, Chen ZY, Okamoto J, Schmitt T, Uldry A, Delley B, Gu GD, Prabhakaran D, Boothroyd AT, van den Brink J, Huang DJ, Dean MPM. Doping Dependence of Collective Spin and Orbital Excitations in the Spin-1 Quantum Antiferromagnet La_{2-x}Sr_{x}NiO_{4} Observed by X Rays. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:156402. [PMID: 28452512 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.156402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We report the first empirical demonstration that resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) is sensitive to collective magnetic excitations in S=1 systems by probing the Ni L_{3} edge of La_{2-x}Sr_{x}NiO_{4} (x=0, 0.33, 0.45). The magnetic excitation peak is asymmetric, indicating the presence of single and multi-spin-flip excitations. As the hole doping level is increased, the zone boundary magnon energy is suppressed at a much larger rate than that in hole doped cuprates. Based on the analysis of the orbital and charge excitations observed by RIXS, we argue that this difference is related to the orbital character of the doped holes in these two families. This work establishes RIXS as a probe of fundamental magnetic interactions in nickelates opening the way towards studies of heterostructures and ultrafast pump-probe experiments.
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- G Fabbris
- Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstraße, 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstraße, 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstraße, 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 30076, Taiwan
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 30076, Taiwan
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- Research Department "Synchotron Radiation and Nanotechnology", Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstraße, 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 30076, Taiwan
- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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Lupascu A, Clancy JP, Gretarsson H, Nie Z, Nichols J, Terzic J, Cao G, Seo SSA, Islam Z, Upton MH, Kim J, Casa D, Gog T, Said AH, Katukuri VM, Stoll H, Hozoi L, van den Brink J, Kim YJ. Tuning magnetic coupling in Sr2IrO4 thin films with epitaxial strain. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 112:147201. [PMID: 24766006 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.147201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We report x-ray resonant magnetic scattering and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering studies of epitaxially strained Sr2IrO4 thin films. The films were grown on SrTiO3 and (LaAlO3)0.3(Sr2AlTaO6)0.7 substrates, under slight tensile and compressive strains, respectively. Although the films develop a magnetic structure reminiscent of bulk Sr2IrO4, the magnetic correlations are extremely anisotropic, with in-plane correlation lengths significantly longer than the out-of-plane correlation lengths. In addition, the compressive (tensile) strain serves to suppress (enhance) the magnetic ordering temperature TN, while raising (lowering) the energy of the zone-boundary magnon. Quantum chemical calculations show that the tuning of magnetic energy scales can be understood in terms of strain-induced changes in bond lengths.
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- A Lupascu
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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Gretarsson H, Clancy JP, Liu X, Hill JP, Bozin E, Singh Y, Manni S, Gegenwart P, Kim J, Said AH, Casa D, Gog T, Upton MH, Kim HS, Yu J, Katukuri VM, Hozoi L, van den Brink J, Kim YJ. Crystal-field splitting and correlation effect on the electronic structure of A2IrO3. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 110:076402. [PMID: 25166387 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.076402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2012] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The electronic structure of the honeycomb lattice iridates Na(2)IrO(3) and Li(2)IrO(3) has been investigated using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). Crystal-field-split d-d excitations are resolved in the high-resolution RIXS spectra. In particular, the splitting due to noncubic crystal fields, derived from the splitting of j(eff)=3/2 states, is much smaller than the typical spin-orbit energy scale in iridates, validating the applicability of j(eff) physics in A(2)IrO(3). We also find excitonic enhancement of the particle-hole excitation gap around 0.4 eV, indicating that the nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction could be large. These findings suggest that both Na(2)IrO(3) and Li(2)IrO(3) can be described as spin-orbit Mott insulators, similar to the square lattice iridate Sr(2)IrO(4).
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- H Gretarsson
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- CMP&MS Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- CMP&MS Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- CMP&MS Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli PO 140 306, Punjab, India
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- I. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- I. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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Liu X, Katukuri VM, Hozoi L, Yin WG, Dean MPM, Upton MH, Kim J, Casa D, Said A, Gog T, Qi TF, Cao G, Tsvelik AM, van den Brink J, Hill JP. Testing the validity of the strong spin-orbit-coupling limit for octahedrally coordinated iridate compounds in a model system Sr3CuIrO6. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:157401. [PMID: 23102366 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.157401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The electronic structure of Sr3CuIrO6, a model system for the 5d Ir ion in an octahedral environment, is studied through a combination of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering and theoretical calculations. Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectra at the Ir L3 edge reveal an Ir t(2g) manifold that is split into three levels, in contrast to the expectations of the strong spin-orbit-coupling limit. Effective Hamiltonian and ab inito quantum chemistry calculations find a strikingly large noncubic crystal field splitting comparable to the spin-orbit coupling, which results in a strong mixing of the j(eff)=1/2 and j(eff)=3/2 states and modifies the isotropic wave functions on which many theoretical models are based.
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- X Liu
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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Stoyanova A, Hozoi L, Fulde P, Stoll H. Correlation-induced corrections to the band structure of boron nitride: A wave-function-based approach. J Chem Phys 2009; 131:044119. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3177010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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State-of-the-art quantum chemical methods are applied to the study of the multiorbital correlated electronic structure of a Fe-As compound, the recently discovered LiFeAs. Our calculations predict a high-spin, S=2, ground-state configuration for the Fe ions, which shows that the on-site Coulomb interactions are substantial. Also, orbital degeneracy in the (xz, yz) sector and a three-quarter filling of these levels suggest the presence of strong fluctuations and are compatible with a low metallic conductivity in the normal state. The lowest electron-removal states have As 4p character, in analogy with the ligand hole states in p-type cuprate superconductors.
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- L Hozoi
- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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Hozoi L, Laad MS. Quasiparticle bands in cuprates by quantum-chemical methods: towards an ab initio description of strong electron correlations. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 99:256404. [PMID: 18233537 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.256404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Realistic electronic-structure calculations for correlated Mott insulators are notoriously difficult. Here we present an ab initio multiconfiguration scheme that adequately describes strong correlation effects involving Cu 3d and O 2p electrons in layered cuprates. In particular, the O 2p states giving rise to the Zhang-Rice band are explicitly considered. Renormalization effects due to nonlocal spin interactions are also treated consistently. We show that the dispersion of the lowest band observed in photoemission is reproduced with quantitative accuracy. Additionally, the evolution of the Fermi surface with doping follows directly from our ab initio data. Our results thus open a new avenue for the first-principles investigation of the electronic structure of correlated Mott insulators.
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- L Hozoi
- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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Magnetic interactions in ladder vanadates are determined with quantum chemical computational schemes using the embedded cluster model approach to represent the material. The available experimental data for calcium vanadate is accurately reproduced and the nature of the interladder interaction is established to be ferromagnetic. An analysis of the main contributions to the magnetic couplings is presented and the role of the covalently bonded apex oxygen is elucidated. In the sodium vanadate, the ground state configuration of the rungs is V-3d1-O-2p5-V-3d1. We show that with this configuration good intrachain coupling constants are obtained for the high-temperature phase. The interchain coupling in NaV2O5 is predicted to be approximately 34 K, ferromagnetic in nature.
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- C de Graaf
- Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Placa Imperial Tarraco 1, 43005 Tarragona, Spain.
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Hozoi L, de Vries AH, van Oosten AB, Broer R, Cabrero J, de Graaf C. Theoretical characterization of the ground and optically excited states of alpha'-NaV2O5. Phys Rev Lett 2002; 89:076407. [PMID: 12190542 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.076407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2002] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The character of the ground and optically excited states was investigated by quantum chemical calculations. We propose a rung ground state with V 3d(1)(xy)-O 2p(1)(y)-V 3d(1)(xy) character, instead of the conventional picture of one unpaired electron shared by 2 V ions. The unpaired electron on O is low-spin coupled to the V d electrons and spin density is predicted to be localized on vanadium. The absorption peak at 0.9 eV is assigned to a state with similar orbital occupations but a different spin coupling scheme, resulting in spin density localized on the bridging oxygen.
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- L Hozoi
- Theoretical Chemistry and Materials Science Centre, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, The Netherlands
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