Symmetry-breaking polymorphous descriptions for correlated materials without interelectronic U
Abstract
Correlated materials with open-shell d- and f-ions having degenerate band edge states show a rich variety of interesting properties ranging from metal-insulator transition to unconventional superconductivity. The textbook view for the electronic structure of these materials is that mean-field approaches are inappropriate, as the interelectronic interaction U is required to open a band gap between the occupied and unoccupied degenerate states while retaining symmetry. We show that the latter scenario often defining what Mott insulators are, is in fact not needed for the 3d binary oxides MnO, FeO, CoO, and NiO. The mean-field-like band theory can indeed lift such degeneracies in the binaries when nontrivial unit cell representations (polymorphous networks) are allowed to break symmetries, in conjunction with a recently developed non-empirical exchange and correlation density-functional without an on-site interelectronic interaction U. We explain how density-functional theory (DFT) in the polymorphous representation achieves band gap opening in correlated materials through a separate mechanism to the Mott-Hubbard approach. Here, we show the method predicts magnetic moments and gaps for the four binary monoxides in both the antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases, offering an effective alternative to symmetry-conserving approaches for studying a range of functionalities in open d- and f-shell complex materials.
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- Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA (United States); Southern Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen (China)
- Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1737427
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019350; DMR-1724791
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 102; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Edge states; First-principles calculations; Strongly correlated systems; Bloch wave theory; Density functional theory
Citation Formats
Zhang, Yubo, Furness, James, Zhang, Ruiqi, Wang, Zhi, Zunger, Alex, and Sun, Jianwei. Symmetry-breaking polymorphous descriptions for correlated materials without interelectronic U. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.102.045112.
Zhang, Yubo, Furness, James, Zhang, Ruiqi, Wang, Zhi, Zunger, Alex, & Sun, Jianwei. Symmetry-breaking polymorphous descriptions for correlated materials without interelectronic U. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.045112
Zhang, Yubo, Furness, James, Zhang, Ruiqi, Wang, Zhi, Zunger, Alex, and Sun, Jianwei. Wed .
"Symmetry-breaking polymorphous descriptions for correlated materials without interelectronic U". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.045112. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1737427.
@article{osti_1737427,
title = {Symmetry-breaking polymorphous descriptions for correlated materials without interelectronic U},
author = {Zhang, Yubo and Furness, James and Zhang, Ruiqi and Wang, Zhi and Zunger, Alex and Sun, Jianwei},
abstractNote = {Correlated materials with open-shell d- and f-ions having degenerate band edge states show a rich variety of interesting properties ranging from metal-insulator transition to unconventional superconductivity. The textbook view for the electronic structure of these materials is that mean-field approaches are inappropriate, as the interelectronic interaction U is required to open a band gap between the occupied and unoccupied degenerate states while retaining symmetry. We show that the latter scenario often defining what Mott insulators are, is in fact not needed for the 3d binary oxides MnO, FeO, CoO, and NiO. The mean-field-like band theory can indeed lift such degeneracies in the binaries when nontrivial unit cell representations (polymorphous networks) are allowed to break symmetries, in conjunction with a recently developed non-empirical exchange and correlation density-functional without an on-site interelectronic interaction U. We explain how density-functional theory (DFT) in the polymorphous representation achieves band gap opening in correlated materials through a separate mechanism to the Mott-Hubbard approach. Here, we show the method predicts magnetic moments and gaps for the four binary monoxides in both the antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases, offering an effective alternative to symmetry-conserving approaches for studying a range of functionalities in open d- and f-shell complex materials.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.102.045112},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 4,
volume = 102,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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