A possibility of high spin hole states in doped CoO2layered systems
- 29 July 2013
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Vol. 25 (34), 345601
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/25/34/345601
Abstract
We introduce and investigate an effective five-band model for t2g and eg electrons to describe doped cobalt oxides with Co3+ and Co4+ ions in two-dimensional CoO2 triangular lattice layers, as in Na1−xCoO2. The effective Hamiltonian includes anisotropic kinetic energy (due to both direct Co–Co and indirect Co–O–Co hoppings), on-site Coulomb interactions parameterized by intraorbital Hubbard repulsion U and full Hund’s exchange tensor, crystal field terms and Jahn–Teller static distortions. We study it using correlated wave functions on 6 × 6 clusters with periodic boundary conditions. The computations indicate a low S = 0 spin to high S = 2 spin abrupt transition in the undoped systems when increasing strength of the crystal field, while intermediate S = 1 spins are not found. Surprisingly, for the investigated realistic Hamiltonian parameters describing low-spin states in CoO2 planes, doping generates high spins at Co4+ ions that are pairwise bound into singlets, seen here as pairs of up and down spins. It is found that such singlet pairs self-organize at higher doping into lines of magnetic ions with coexisting antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic bonds between them, forming stripe-like structures. The ground states are insulating within the investigated range of doping because computed HOMO–LUMO gaps are never small enough.Keywords
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