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On the problem of the phase diagram of new superconductors
L.P. Gor’Kov, A.V. Sokol
To cite this version:
L.P. Gor’Kov, A.V. Sokol. On the problem of the phase diagram of new superconductors. Journal de
Physique, 1989, 50 (18), pp.2823-2832. �10.1051/jphys:0198900500180282300�. �jpa-00211105�
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On the problem of the phase diagram of new superconductors
L. P. Gor’kov and A. V. Sokol
L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 142432
Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, U.S.S.R.
(Reçu le 13 mars 1989, accepté le 12 mai 1989)
Résumé.
2014Nous présentons un modèle de spectre électronique avec une large bande de trous
délocalisés et faiblement hybridée avec un réseau de niveaux localisés. Nous en dérivons un
hamiltonien effectif incluant les interactions spin-spin, spin-trou et trou-trou. Avec quelques hypothèses, l’intégrale d’échange peut être à longue portée. Nous montrons que, à faible concentration de dopant, les porteurs de la bande de conduction forment de grands polarons.
Nous donnons la susceptibilité magnétique du système entier et sa dépendance en concentration et température (dans la limite des grandes concentrations). Nous montrons que, à cause que la contribution compensatrice de l’interaction de type RKKY, le système antiferromagnétique peut présenter une instabilité ferromagnétique avec une énergie caractéristique de l’ordre de la
température de Néel. L’importance des effets quantiques est soulignée.
Abstract.
2014We present a model of the electron spectrum with one delocalized hole-like broad band weakly hybridized with the array of localized levels. Effective Hamiltonian including the spin-spin interaction, spin-hole interaction and hole-hole interaction is derived. At some
assumptions the exchange integral proves to be a long-range one. It is shown that at small dopant
concentrations carriers in the conduction band form the large size polarons. The magnetic susceptibility of the whole system and its dependence on concentration and temperature (in the
range of large concentrations) are found. It is shown that, due to the compensating contribution from the RKKY-interaction, an antiferromagnetic system may tend to a ferromagnetic instability
with the characteristic energy of the order of the Neel temperature. The importance of the quantum effects is emphasized.
J. Phys. France 50 (1989) 2823-2832 15 SEPTEMBRE 1989,
Classification
Physics Abstracts
74.20
-74.30
-74.70J
1. Introduction.
In this article within the framework of the model proposed previously [1, 2] an attempt is
made to interpret peculiarities of the phase diagram of new superconductors under doping.
For definiteness below we shall have in mind the properties of La2 - ,Sr,,CU04. The latter have been extensively discussed in the literature (see, e.g., [3]). Of the highest interest is naturally
the sharp dependence of the nature of the ground state on doping, e.g., transformation of the
antiferromagnetic (apparently, dielectric) state at small x into a metallic behavior at high
strontium concentrations. Although in the experimental picture there are still many obscure
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problems, a number of qualitative considerations was given, which we think may have to do with the problem. We mean, for instance, the comment made in [4] that the exchange
interaction between the oxygen hole and the moment on Cu 2, is large in comparison with the exchange integrals between the localized spins of copper ions. We aim at transferring this
discussion to a more microscopic level of the band structure of the compounds under study.
The fact that all the diversity of the properties of the new superconductors cannot be
described in terms of the Hubbard model of only Cu ions, as, for instance, has been assumed in [5], entailed already from the numerical calculations (see, e.g., [6]) which revealed that the
overlapping of d-copper shells and p-oxygen orbitals is not small. At the same time the presence of localized moments on Cu2+ is already an established fact [7, 8] and the role of interelectron correlations is undoubtful. Now there are two models whose major difference
lies in the physical nature of how a localized state of the hole on Cu ion is formed.
The model [9] is based on the picture of atomic copper d-orbitals and oxygen p-orbitals.
The latter, as is assumed, in terms of energy lies higher than the one hole-filled orbitals
Cu 2+ (configuration d9). Cu2 + ions are Hubbard centers. Doping is responsible for the
emergence of holes on 02 - ions and transport properties (the band) originate from the overlapping (hybridization) between d- and p-orbitals.
In the model [1] a sufficiently broad band for holes is introduced from the very beginning.
Such a band could, for instance, be a result of numerical calculations performed in the assumption that the self-consistent potential corresponds to a configuration d10 for all
Cu+ ions. Let the same calculation yield a level £’ for one Cu+ ion. In [1] an interaction of the hole on this level, V Q Q, with any phonon degree of freedom, Q, is assumed to be strong. As
a result of this interaction, the level goes down :
where Mil 2 is the appropriate rigidity of the lattice. The strong polaron effect (1) for the state Cu2 + originates from the Jahn-Teller instability of the octahedric configuration in perovskites.
Localization of the states CU2 + and their orthogonality to the band states is, thus, ensured
and enhanced by the inclusion of slow lattice degrees of freedom. If the lattice times of relaxation are smaller than the lifetime of the state Cu2 + ,
,these states can, of course, be treated as Hubbard centers.
The position of the level (1) relative to the bottom of the conduction band determines the carrier population. Since, for instance, the rigidity of the system Mf2 2, no doubt, depends on doping and on other lattice parameters, the motion of the level £o with respect to the delocalized band could in principle describe the transition from the dielectric regime to the
metallic regime at strong doping. It is this aspect of the problem that has been discussed in [1].
Probably it has something to do with the problem in view of the discovery of two phases in La2Cu04.13 [10] or of metallization in La2-xSrxCu04 at x
=0.17 [11,12]. In this article however we study only the region of relatively low concentrations. It is our assumption that
the ground state is magnetic and dielectric. Correspondingly, the relative position of local
levels and of the conduction band (for holes !) is chosen as is given in figure 1. With all this
taken into account, we can describe this case by the periodic Anderson Hamiltonian
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where V is weak hybridization ; repulsion on the Hubbard centers is assumed to be infinitely strong. The conduction band close to its bottom is quadratic, £(p)
=p 2/2 mB. The width of the band, D, can arbitrarily be related to the position of level £0
= -à
:0. Henceforth we
shall hold that the dispersion law 8. is close to a 2D law reflecting the layered character of new
superconducting materials. It is convenient to introduce the following set of parameters, characterizing the band and magnitude of hybridization :
where a is a lattice parameter, mT is the effective mass of the hole near the top of the band, at
p = Qo
=(7r la, 7r la ). In general, 17 and v are not equal to unity. Below it will be assumed that the parameter À is small and the value q - v - 1 for the band of an arbitrary form. Note
that in what follows only one conduction band is taken into account for the purposes of a
simplification.
2. Effective Hamiltonian.
The Hamiltonian (2) despite its seeming simplicity describes a most complicated problem in general conditions. Yet, under the constraints formulated above, it permits this problem to be
reduced to the problem of Heisenberg spins. Some main parameters of the spin Hamiltonian have already been obtained in [2]. In this section we shall describe a regular method of deriving the effective Hamiltonian, H,,ff , which is equivalent to (2) at T « A In contrast to the derivation in [2], this method makes it possible not only to obtain higher order terms with respect to spin-spin interactions but also consistently to take into account the interaction between spins and carriers (holes) in the conduction band and carrier-carrier interaction.
Treating the term with hybridization in (2) as a perturbation, we can standardly rewrite the
grand partition function as
where
The problem is to reduce expressions (3, 3’) to the form
employing à > T, i.e. the fact that transitions from local levels into the conduction band are
absent at low temperatures. The Hamiltonian Beff will, as a result, be defined on the manifold of wave functions CPh Et) CPs, where 0,
Sare wave functions of 2N-fold degenerate states of
Hubbard centers and oh are wave functions of holes, added to the band under the condition that filling of the conduction band is not large (EF «’:,à)- (The derivation allows for
generalizations which we shall not dwell upon here.)
The first non-zero new contribution to Heff (4) comes from the second order term in the
expansion (3’) in V :
The order of operators d,,, (r2) dnu,(T1) (T2:> Tl) is fixed by the assumption of strong
repulsion on the n-th center. We rewrite the operators b (2 ) 4, ’ (1 ) in the interaction
representation as
Whereas the first term in (6) is c-number, it is possible to put -rl !-- T2 (A> T, EF) in the
second term and now it transforms into the operator of the number of particles in the secondary quantisation : the contribution to Heff is (« s-d » interaction)
where Sn is a localized (one-half) spin of the n-th center and the first term corresponds to the
renormalization of the energy of the localized level.
We now calculated S4({3) (the fourth order term over V in (3’». Unlike (5) in S4({3) there are already two independent sums over local centers (say, m and n). Let first
n =A m. A relative order of times for the operators dm ( T4 ), dn ( T3 ), dn(7-2) and dm( Tl) (and, accordingly, for the operators 1/1 m ( T 4), 1/1 n ( T 3), 1/1:- ( T 2) and 1/1:’ ( Tl)) is again determined by
the requirement that the local center be occupied : T4::> Tl 1 and -r3 :::’ T2. The difference of
S4 (,S ) from
is in the presence in S4({3) under the integral of the terms, e.g. of the form
(at 7"4 >- T3:> ’r > T2). After commutation (i.e. reduction to independent integrals with respect to (T4’ T 1 ) and (7-3, T2)) there emerge new contributions (of the order of
V4) to the effective Hamiltonian of the form :
exchange interaction :
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