374 research outputs found
Rotational Symmetry Breaking in Sodium Doped Cuprates
For reasonable parameters a hole bound to a Na^{+} acceptor in
Ca_{2-x}Na_{x}CuO_{2}Cl_{2} has a doubly degenerate ground state whose
components can be represented as states with even (odd) reflection symmetry
around the x(y) -axes. The conductance pattern for one state is anisotropic as
the tip of a tunneling microscope scans above the Cu-O-Cu bonds along the
x(y)-axes. This anisotropy is pronounced at lower voltages but is reduced at
higher voltages. Qualitative agreement with recent experiments leads us to
propose this effect as an explanation of the broken local rotational symmetry.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Apparent electron-phonon interaction in strongly correlated systems
We study the interaction of electrons with phonons in strongly correlated
solids, having high-T_c cuprates in mind. Using sum-rules, we show that the
apparent strength of this interaction strongly depends on the property studied.
If the solid has a small fraction (doping) delta of charge carriers, the
influence of the interaction on the phonon self-energy is reduced by a factor
delta, while there is no corresponding reduction of the coupling seen in the
electron self-energy. This supports the interpretation of recent photoemission
experiments, assuming a strong coupling to phonons.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX, 2 eps figure
Electron-phonon interaction in the t-J model
We derive a t-J model with electron-phonon coupling from the three-band
model, considering modulation of both hopping and Coulomb integrals by phonons.
While the modulation of the hopping integrals dominates, the modulation of the
Coulomb integrals cannot be neglected. The model explains the experimentally
observed anomalous softening of the half-breathing mode upon doping and a
weaker softening of the breathing mode. It is shown that other phonons are not
strongly influenced, and, in particular, the coupling to a buckling mode is not
strong in this model.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX, 3 eps figures; final version with minor correction
Controlling shot noise in double-barrier magnetic tunnel junctions
We demonstrate that shot noise in Fe/MgO/Fe/MgO/Fe double-barrier magnetic
tunnel junctions is determined by the relative magnetic configuration of the
junction and also by the asymmetry of the barriers. The proposed theoretical
model, based on sequential tunneling through the system and including spin
relaxation, successfully accounts for the experimental observations for bias
voltages below 0.5V, where the influence of quantum well states is negligible.
A weak enhancement of conductance and shot noise, observed at some voltages
(especially above 0.5V), indicates the formation of quantum well states in the
middle magnetic layer. The observed results open up new perspectives for a
reliable magnetic control of the most fundamental noise in spintronic
structures.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Spin and Charge Texture around In-Plane Charge Centers in the CuO_2 planes
Recent experiments on La_2Cu_{1-x}Li_xO_4 show that although the doped holes
remain localized near the substitutional Li impurities, magnetic order is
rapidly suppressed. An examination of the spin texture around a bound hole in a
CuO_2 plane shows that the formation of a skyrmion is favored in a wide range
of parameters, as was previously proposed in the context of Sr doping. The spin
texture may be observable by elastic diffuse neutron scattering, and may also
have a considerable effect on NMR lineshapes.Comment: 4 pages, postscript file, hardcopy available upon request, to appear
in PR
Anomalous Spin and Charge Dynamics of the 2D t-J Model at low doping
We present an exact diagonalization study of the dynamical spin and density
correlation function of the 2D t-J model for hole doping < 25%. Both
correlation functions show a remarkably regular, but completely different
scaling behaviour with both hole concentration and parameter values: the
density correlation function is consistent with that of bosons corresponding to
the doped holes and condensed into the lowest state of the noninteracting band
of width 8t, the spin correlation function is consistent with Fermions in a
band of width J. We show that the spin bag picture gives a natural explanation
for this unusual behaviour.Comment: Revtex-file, 4 PRB pages + 5 figures attached as uu-encoded ps-files
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Theory of Dynamic Stripe Induced Superconductivity
Since the recently reported giant isotope effect on T* [1] could be
consistently explained within an anharmonic spin-charge-phonon interaction
model, we consider here the role played by stripe formation on the
superconducting properties within the same model. This is a two-component
scenario and we recast its basic elements into a BCS effective Hamiltonian. We
find that the stripe formation is vital to high-Tc superconductivity since it
provides the glue between the two components to enhance Tc to the unexpectedly
large values observed experimentally.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
Interaction of a Magnetic Impurity with Strongly Correlated Conduction Electrons
We consider a magnetic impurity which interacts by hybridization with a
system of strongly correlated conduction electrons. The latter are described by
a Hubbard Hamiltonian. By means of a canconical transformation the charge
degrees of freedom of the magnetic impurity are eliminated. The resulting
effective Hamiltonian is investigated and various limiting cases
are considered. If the Hubbard interaction between the conduction electrons
is neglected reduces to a form obtained by the Schrieffer-Wolff
transformation, which is essentially the Kondo Hamiltonian. If is large and
the correlations are strong is changed. One modification concerns
the coefficient of the dominant exchange coupling of the magnetic impurity with
the nearest lattice site. When the system is hole doped, there is also an
antiferromagnetic coupling to the nearest neighbors of that site involving
additionally a hole. Furthermore, it is found that the magnetic impurity
attracts a hole. In the case of electron doping, double occupancies are
repelled by the impurity. In contrast to the hole-doped case, we find no
magnetic coupling which additionally involves a doubly occupied site.Comment: 16 pages, Revtex 3.
Unifying the Phase Diagrams of the Magnetic and Transport Properties of La_(2-x)Sr_xCuO_4, 0 < x < 0.05
An extensive experimental and theoretical effort has led to a largely
complete mapping of the magnetic phase diagram of La_(2-x)Sr_xCuO_4, and a
microscopic model of the spin textures produced in the x < 0.05 regime has been
shown to be in agreement with this phase diagram. Here we use this same model
to derive a theory of the impurity-dominated, low temperature transport. Then,
we present an analysis of previously published data for two samples: x = 0.002
data from Chen et. al., and x = 0.04 data from Keimer et. al. We show that the
transport mechanisms in the two systems are the same, even though they are on
opposite sides of the observed insulator-to-metal transition. Our model of
impurity effects on the impurity band conduction, variable-range hopping
conduction, and coulomb gap conduction, is similar to that used to describe
doped semiconductors. However, for La_(2-x)Sr_xCuO_4 we find that in addition
to impurity-generated disorder effects, strong correlations are important and
must be treated on a equal level with disorder. On the basis of this work we
propose a phase diagram that is consistent with available magnetic and
transport experiments, and which connects the undoped parent compound with the
lowest x value for which La_(2-x)Sr_xCuO_4 is found to be superconducting, x
about 0.06.Comment: 7 pages revtex with one .ps figur
Propagation of a hole on a Neel background
We analyze the motion of a single hole on a N\'eel background, neglecting
spin fluctuations. Brinkman and Rice studied this problem on a cubic lattice,
introducing the retraceable-path approximation for the hole Green's function,
exact in a one-dimensional lattice. Metzner et al. showed that the
approximationalso becomes exact in the infinite-dimensional limit. We introduce
a new approach to this problem by resumming the Nagaoka expansion of the
propagator in terms of non-retraceable skeleton-paths dressed by
retraceable-path insertions. This resummation opens the way to an almost
quantitative solution of the problemin all dimensions and, in particular sheds
new light on the question of the position of the band-edges. We studied the
motion of the hole on a double chain and a square lattice, for which deviations
from the retraceable-path approximation are expected to be most pronounced. The
density of states is mostly adequately accounted for by the
retra\-ce\-able-path approximation. Our band-edge determination points towards
an absence of band tails extending to the Nagaoka energy in the spectrums of
the double chain and the square lattice. We also evaluated the spectral density
and the self-energy, exhibiting k-dependence due to finite dimensionality. We
find good agreement with recent numerical results obtained by Sorella et al.
with the Lanczos spectra decoding method. The method we employ enables us to
identify the hole paths which are responsible for the various features present
in the density of states and the spectral density.Comment: 26 pages,Revte
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