2013/03/21 by Guo, Yuzheng, Clark, Stewart J., Robertson, John
#FOS: Physical sciences #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1303.5320
The electronic structure of vanadium sesquioxide in its different phases has been calculated using the screened exchange (sX) hybrid functional. The hybrid functional reproduces the electronic properties of all three phases, the paramagnetic metal (PM) phase, the anti-ferromagnetic insulating phase, and the Cr-doped paramagnetic insulating (PI) phase. A fully relaxed supercell model of Cr-doped V2O3 has a polaronic distortion around the substitutional Cr atoms and this local strain drives the PI-PM transition. The PI phase has a calculated band gap of 0.15eV in good agreement with experiment.