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电荷掺杂对镍酸盐超晶格电子结构、轨道极化和结构畸变的影响

Effect of charge doping on the electronic structure, orbital polarization, and structural distortion in nickelate superlattice

Heung-Sik Kim, Myung Joon Han

摘要:

采用第一性原理密度泛函理论计算,研究了LaNiO $_3$ /SrTiO $_3$超晶格中电荷掺杂的影响.基于两种不同的掺杂模拟方法的详细分析清楚地表明,电子和结构性质以系统的方式变化,轨道极化({ \it,即})是一个系统的方式。两个Ni- $e_g$轨道的相对占据)随着掺杂电子数的增加而减小,并且Ni到顶端氧的距离增大。此外,NiO $_6$ /TiO $_6$八面体的旋转角强烈且系统地依赖于掺杂,使得角度$γ$逐渐减小,而$α$和$β$作为电子掺杂的函数而增加。进一步的分析表明,电子(空穴)掺杂可以起到类似的八面体旋转的压缩(拉伸)应变的作用。我们的研究结果不仅提供了一种通过电荷掺杂来控制轨道和结构性质的可能途径,而且为理解氧空位等各种掺杂情况下的实验提供了有用的信息。

英文摘要:

Using first-principles density functional theory calculations, we investigated the effect of charge doping in a LaNiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ superlattice. The detailed analysis based on two different simulation methods for doping clearly shows that the electronic and structural properties change in a systematic way that the orbital polarization ({\it i.e.} relative occupation of two Ni-$e_g$ orbitals) is reduced and the Ni to apical oxygen distance enlarged as the number of doped electrons increases. Also, the rotation angles of the NiO$_6$/TiO$_6$ octahedra strongly and systematically depend on the doping so that the angle $γ$ gradually decreases whereas the $α$ and $β$ increase as a function of electron doping. Further analysis shows that the electron (hole) doping can play a similar role with the compressive (tensile) strain for the octahedral rotations. Our results not only suggest a possible way to control the orbital and structural property by means of charge doping, but also provide useful information to understand the experiments under various doping situations such as oxygen vacancy.

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