We describe, from advanced first principles calculations, the energetics of oxygen doping and its relation to insulator-metal transitions in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x. We find a strong tendency of doping oxygens to order into nonmagnetic Cu1+Ox chains at any x. Ordering produces one-dimensional metallic bands, while configurations with nonaligned oxygens are insulating. The Cu2+O2 planes remain insulating and antiferromagnetic up to a threshold between x=0.25 and 0.5, above which a paramagnetic normal-metal state prevails. The in-plane antiferroparamagnetic competition depends on x but only weakly on the ordering state of the chains.
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Titolo: | Chain metallicity and competition between paramagnetism and antiferromagnetism in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x: A first principles description |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2008 |
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Abstract: | We describe, from advanced first principles calculations, the energetics of oxygen doping and its relation to insulator-metal transitions in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x. We find a strong tendency of doping oxygens to order into nonmagnetic Cu1+Ox chains at any x. Ordering produces one-dimensional metallic bands, while configurations with nonaligned oxygens are insulating. The Cu2+O2 planes remain insulating and antiferromagnetic up to a threshold between x=0.25 and 0.5, above which a paramagnetic normal-metal state prevails. The in-plane antiferroparamagnetic competition depends on x but only weakly on the ordering state of the chains. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11584/40403 |
Tipologia: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |