2004/09/30 by Markus Aichhorn, M. Aichhorn, E. Ya. Sherman +2
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Antibonding molecular orbital #Atomic orbital #Charge (physics) #Charge ordering #Condensed matter physics #Coulomb #Iron-based superconductors research #Lattice (music) #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum mechanics #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.72.155110
published as PRB 72, 155110 (2005) · 10 pages, 9 figures, version as published in PRB
openalex publication_date 2005/10/12 · arxiv created 2005/10/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study the single-particle properties of quarter-filled ladder systems such as \ensuremathα^\ensuremath'\text\ensuremath-NaV2O5 by means of a recently developed generalization of the variational cluster perturbation theory to extended Hubbard models. We find a homogeneous antiferromagnetic insulating phase for nearest-neighbor repulsions smaller than a critical value, without any metallic phase for small repulsions. Different from cluster dynamical mean-field theory and local density approximation considerations, the inclusion of diagonal hopping within a ladder has little effect on the bonding bands, while flattening and shifting the antibonding bands. In the low-temperature charge-ordered phase, the spectrum depends on whether the ordering is driven by the Coulomb repulsion or by the coupling to a static lattice distortion. The small change of the experimentally observed gap upon charge ordering implies that the lattice coupling plays an important role in this ordering. Interladder coupling is straightforward to include within our method. We show that it has only a minor effect on the spectral function. The numerically calculated spectra show good agreement with experimental angle-resolved photoemission data.