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强自旋轨道耦合体系低能哈密顿量的从头推导及其在Ca5Ir3O12中的应用

Ab initio Derivation of Low-Energy Hamiltonians for Systems with Strong Spin-Orbit Interaction and Its Application to Ca5Ir3O12

Maxime Charlebois, Jean-Baptiste Morée, Kazuma Nakamura, Yusuke Nomura, Terumasa Tadano, Yoshihide Yoshimoto, Youhei Yamaji, Takumi Hasegawa, Kazuyuki Matsuhira, Masatoshi Imada

AI总结:

本文提出强自旋轨道耦合材料低能哈密顿量的从头推导方法,并应用于Ca5Ir3O12,构建dxy/dyz模型,揭示其强关联特性及自旋轨道耦合与Hund物理的竞争。

摘要:

我们提出了一种针对具有强自旋轨道耦合相互作用的材料的有效低能哈密顿量的从头推导方法。该有效哈密顿量以旋量形式的Wannier函数描述,有效相互作用通过约束随机相近似(cRPA)方法推导。基于这一形式体系和所开发的程序,我们推导出强自旋轨道耦合材料Ca5Ir3O12的有效哈密顿量。该体系由三条沿c轴排列的共边IrO6八面体链组成,ab平面内的三个Ir原子构成三角晶格。对于如此复杂的结构,我们需要在局域坐标系下建立Wannier旋量函数。我们发现费米能级附近的密度泛函能带结构由局域dxy和dyz轨道形成。随后,我们构建了从头算dxy/dyz模型。估算的最近邻跃迁t接近0.2 eV,cRPA在位U和近邻V电子相互作用分别为2.4-2.5 eV和1 eV。由此得到的特征关联强度(U-V)/t大于7,因此该材料被归类为强关联电子体系。自旋轨道耦合中涉及的在位跃迁积分为0.2 eV,与接近0.2 eV的在位交换积分相当,表明自旋轨道耦合物理将与Hund物理竞争。基于这些计算结果,我们讨论了在Hund、自旋轨道耦合和强关联物理相互竞争下,自旋、电荷和轨道可能丰富的基态低能电子结构。

英文摘要:

We present an ab initio derivation method for effective low-energy Hamiltonians of material with strong spin-orbit interactions. The effective Hamiltonian is described in terms of the Wannier function in the spinor form, and effective interactions are derived with the constrained random phase approximation (cRPA) method. Based on this formalism and the developed code, we derive an effective Hamiltonian of a strong spin-orbit interaction material Ca5Ir3O12. This system consists of three edge-shared IrO6 octahedral chains arranged along the c axis, and the three Ir atoms in the ab plane compose a triangular lattice. For such a complicated structure, we need to set up the Wannier spinor function under the local coordinate system. We found that a density-functional band structure near the Fermi level is formed by local dxy and dyz orbitals. Then, we constructed the ab initio dxy/dyz model. The estimated nearest neighbor transfer t is close to 0.2 eV, and the cRPA onsite U and neighboring V electronic interactions are found to be 2.4-2.5 eV and 1 eV, respectively. The resulting characteristic correlation strength defined by (U-V)/t is above 7, and thus this material is classified as a strongly correlated electron system. The onsite transfer integral involved in the spin-orbit interaction is 0.2 eV, which is comparable to the onsite exchange integrals near 0.2 eV, indicating that the spin-orbit-interaction physics would compete with the Hund physics. Based on these calculated results, we discuss possible rich ground-state low-energy electronic structures of spin, charge and orbitals with competing Hund, spin-orbit and strong correlation physics.

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