| Issue |
EPL
Volume 92, Number 5, December 2010
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| Article Number | 57007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/92/57007 | |
| Published online | 21 December 2010 | |
The electronic structures and magnetic properties of perovskite ruthenates from constrained orbital-hybridization calculations
1
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University Nanjing 210093, China
2
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University - Nanjing 210093, China
Received:
21
May
2010
Accepted:
15
November
2010
We introduce a method to analyze the effect of hybridization by shifting the corresponding atomic levels using external potentials. Based on this approach, we study perovskite ruthenates, and unambiguously identify that the covalency between the A-site cation and the O ion modifies the Ru-O hybridization and change the density of state at the Fermi level, consequently affecting the magnetic properties significantly. We also study the effect of pressure and reveal that hydrostatic pressure has a small effect on the Ru-O-Ru bond angle of SrRuO3, while it decreases the Ru-O length and increase the band width significantly. Therefore, the magnetic-ordering temperature will decrease monotonically with pressure.
PACS: 71.20.-b – Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids / 71.20.Lp – Intermetallic compounds / 75.50.Cc – Other ferromagnetic metals and alloys
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