Electronic structure of spin-chain compounds: common features

U. Schwingenschlögl () and C. Schuster

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2007, vol. 55, issue 1, 43-47

Abstract: The incommensurate composite systems M 14 Cu 24 O 41 (M=Ca, Sr, La) are based on two fundamental structural units: CuO 2 chains and Cu 2 O 3 ladders. We present electronic structure calculations within density functional theory in order to address the interrelations between chains and ladders. The calculations account for the details of the crystal structure by means of a unit cell comprising 10 chain and 7 ladder units. It turns out that chains and ladders can be treated independently, which allows us to introduce a model system based on a reduced unit cell. For the CuO 2 chains, we find two characteristic bands at the Fermi energy. Tight binding fits yield nearest and next-nearest neighbour interactions of the same order of magnitude. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2007

Keywords: 71.10.Pm Fermions in reduced dimensions; 71.20.-b Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids; 74.72.-h Cuprate superconductors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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