Abstract
Optical spectra have been investigated for the prototypical Mott-Hubbard (MH) insulators and , and their solid solutions . The MH gap shows a critical variation with x or equivalently with the change of the one-electron bandwidth W. By an extrapolation of the rapidly varying MH gap with the electron correlation strength (Ũ=U/W), we could determine the relative distance of each compound from the hypothetical Mott transition point (U). The band-filling dependence of the gap spectra has been also investigated for with the nominal hole concentration δ. The systematic collapse of the MH gap is argued, together with similar results on filling-controlled compounds , in terms of doping-induced spectral weight transfer.
- Received 13 January 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.51.9581
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