Issue |
EPL
Volume 87, Number 6, September 2009
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Article Number | 67005 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/87/67005 | |
Published online | 08 October 2009 |
Real-space fluctuations of effective exchange integrals in high-Tc cuprates
CRISMAT, ENSICAEN-CNRS UMR6508 - 6 bd. Maréchal Juin, 14050 Caen, France, EU
Received:
9
July
2009
Accepted:
10
September
2009
We present ab initio calculations of effective magnetic exchange, J, as well as Hubbard parameters (t, U and ) as a function of the local distribution of doping atoms for the high-Tc superconducting (CaxLa
)(Ba
La
)Cu3Oy family. We found that both the exchange and the energies of the magnetic orbitals are strongly dependent on the local dopant distribution, both through the induced modification of the apical oxygen location and of the induced local electrostatic potential. The J real-space map, for a random distribution of dopants, positively compares with observed STS gap inhomogeneity maps. Similarly, the orbital energy fluctuations induce weak charge inhomogeneities on copper sites, that can be positively compared with the observed LDOS inhomogeneities. These results clearly support an extrinsic origin of both the gap inhomogeneities and LDOS.
PACS: 74.62.Dh – Effects of crystal defects, doping and substitution / 75.30.Et – Exchange and superexchange interactions / 71.10.Fd – Lattice fermion models (Hubbard model, etc.)
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