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降低能量的对称性破缺在参磁性Nb3Cl8中产生一个平带绝缘体

Energy-lowering symmetry breaking creates a flat-band insulator in paramagnetic Nb3Cl8

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado(科罗拉多大学可再生能源与可持续能源研究所)

Jia-Xin Xiong, Xiuwen Zhang, Alex Zunger

AI总结:

通过合作的结构和磁性效应的对称性破缺,在平均场型密度泛函理论中产生一个降低能量的绝缘相,解释了Nb3Cl8的绝缘态。

摘要:

量子材料的普通能带结构计算通常错误地预测出金属而非绝缘的电子结构,促使Mott-Hubbard强电子关联成为一种能隙机制。更近期地,允许在通常的能带理论中形成局部结构对称性破缺模式,被证明在观察到时可以降低总能量并预测绝缘隙。一个重要反例是最近指出的,Nb3Cl8中由对称性破缺形成的平带本身部分被占据,因此未能解释观测到的绝缘态。本文显示,一种广义的对称性破缺,涉及合作的结构和磁性效应,在平均场型密度泛函理论中产生一个降低能量的绝缘相。

英文摘要:

Ordinary band structure calculations of quantum materials often incorrectly predicted metallic, instead of insulating electronic structure, motivating Mott-Hubbard strong electron correlation as a gapping mechanism. More recently, allowing the formation of local structural symmetry breaking motifs in otherwise ordinary band theory was shown to lower the total energy while predicting insulating gaps when they are observed. An important counter example was recently pointed out whereby the flat band formed in Nb3Cl8 by symmetry breaking is by itself partially occupied, thus failing to account for the observed insulating state. It is shown here that a generalized symmetry breaking involving the cooperative structural and magnetic effects produces in mean-field-like density functional theory an energy lowering insulating phase.

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