Carriers binding to excitons: Crystal-field excitations in doped Mott-Hubbard insulators
- Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden (Netherlands)
- Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Reymonta 4, PL-30-059, Krakow (Poland)
We address the role played by orbital degeneracy in doped Mott-Hubbard insulators. We observe that in all but the simplest systems the carriers bind to [ital d]-[ital d] excitons because of Hund's-rule interactions. These three-particle bound states have distinct spectroscopic signatures and at least in one case these seem already confirmed experimentally. If the crystal-field gaps become of the order of the kinetic energy of the carriers, doping might tend to stabilize phases characterized by a finite occupation of [ital d]-[ital d] excitons in the ground state. If the total spin of both the carrier state and the spin background are at maximum, the relevant excitons do not involve a change in spin. As a consequence, the orbital channel can be in the first instance considered independently from the spin channel and we find an exciton-carrier coupling that in essence interpolates between the carrier-spin-wave couplings of the [ital t]-[ital J] model and the conventional couplings to optical phonons. We work out in detail a case involving high-spin holes in a cupratelike system and we show that the exciton-carrier coupling tends to stabilize an orthorhombic type of orbital order. On the other hand, if either the carriers or the background are in a low-spin state, the relevant excitons also change total spin locally and more-exotic order parameters are possible. We analyze in detail the case of a nickelate close to the high-spin--low-spin transition where we show that doping will tend to stabilize an ordering related to superpositions of low-spin and high-spin states, characterized by an overall spin-rotational invariance. We argue that such a state might be realized in [ital n]-type La[sub 2]NiO[sub 4].
- OSTI ID:
- 6242280
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States), Vol. 48:10; ISSN 0163-1829
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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