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Temperature effects in a spin-orbital model for manganites
We study a two-dimensional effective orbital superexchange model derived for
strongly correlated e_g electrons coupled to t_{2g} core spins in layered
manganites. One finds that the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic correlations
closely compete, and small changes of parameters can switch the type of
magnetic order. For the same reason, spin order is easily destroyed with rising
temperature, while alternating orbital correlations can persist to temperatures
where FM order has already melted. A scenario for the AF phase observed in
LaSrMnO_4 is presented.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the PM05-meeting in Poznan,
Polan
Onset of metallic ferromagnetism in a doped spin-orbital chain
Starting from a spin-orbital model for doped manganites, we investigate a
competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic order in a
one-dimensional model at finite temperature. The magnetic and orbital order at
half filling support each other and depend on a small antiferromagnetic
superexchange between t_{2g} spins and on an alternating Jahn-Teller potential.
The crossover to a metallic ferromagnetic phase found at finite doping is
partly suppressed by the Jahn-Teller potential which may localize e_g
electrons.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, contribution to ICTP Ustron, 2004, see phys.
stat. sol. at http://www.interscience.wiley.co
Coexistence of the Electron Cooper Pair and Antiferromagnetic Short-Range Correlation in Copper Oxide Materials
Within the fermion-spin theory, the physical properties of the electron
pairing state in the copper oxide materials are discussed. According to the
common form of the electron Cooper pair, it is shown that there is a
coexistence of the electron Cooper pair and magnetic short-range correlation,
and hence the antiferromagnetic short-range correlation can persist into the
superconducting state. Moreover, the mean-field results indicate that the
electron pairing state originating from the pure magnetic interaction in the
two-dimensional t-J model is the local state, and then does not reveal the true
superconducting ground-state.Comment: 6 pages, Revtex, Four figures are adde
Study of ARPES data and d-wave superconductivity using electronic models in two dimensions
We review the results of an extensive investigation of photoemission spectral
weight using electronic models for the high-Tc superconductors. Here we show
that some recently reported unusual features of the cuprates namely the
presence of (i) flat bands, (ii) small quasiparticle bandwidths, and (iii)
antiferromagnetically induced weight, have all a natural explanation within the
context of holes moving in the presence of robust antiferromagnetic
correlations. Introducing interactions among the hole carriers, a model is
constructed which has superconductivity, an optimal
doping of (caused by the presence of a large density of states at
the top of the valence band), and a critical temperature .Comment: 11 pages Z-compressed postscript, to appear in the Proceedings to the
Stanford Conference on Spectroscopies in Novel superconductor
Insulator to Metal Transition Induced by Disorder in a Model for Manganites
The physics of manganites appears to be dominated by phase competition among
ferromagnetic metallic and charge-ordered antiferromagnetic insulating states.
Previous investigations (Burgy {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 87}, 277202
(2001)) have shown that quenched disorder is important to smear the first-order
transition between those competing states, and induce nanoscale inhomogeneities
that produce the colossal magnetoresistance effect. Recent studies (Motome {\it
et al.} Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 91}, 167204 (2003)) have provided further
evidence that disorder is important in the manganite context, unveiling an
unexpected insulator-to-metal transition triggered by disorder in a one-orbital
model with cooperative phonons. In this paper, a qualitative explanation for
this effect is presented. It is argued that the transition occurs for disorder
in the form of local random energies. Acting over an insulating states made out
of a checkerboard arrangement of charge, with ``effective'' site energies
positive and negative, this form of disorder can produce lattice sites with an
effective energy near zero, favorable for the transport of charge. This
explanation is based on Monte Carlo simulations and the study of simplified toy
models, measuring the density-of-states, cluster conductances using the
Landauer formalism, and other observables. The applicability of these ideas to
real manganites is discussed.Comment: 14 pages, 23 figures, submitted to Physical Review
Dynamical Mean-Field Study of the Ferromagnetic Transition Temperature of a Two-Band Model for Colossal Magnetoresistance Materials
The ferromagnetic (FM) transition temperature (Tc) of a two-band
Double-Exchange (DE) model for colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) materials is
studied using dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), in wide ranges of coupling
constants, hopping parameters, and carrier densities. The results are shown to
be in excellent agreement with Monte Carlo simulations. When the bands overlap,
the value of Tc is found to be much larger than in the one-band case, for all
values of the chemical potential within the energy overlap interval. A nonzero
interband hopping produces an additional substantial increase of Tc, showing
the importance of these nondiagonal terms, and the concomitant use of multiband
models, to boost up the critical temperatures in DE-based theories.Comment: 4 pages, 4 eps figure
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