Charge ordering and long-range interactions in layered transition metal oxides: A quasiclassical continuum study

Branko P. Stojković, Z. G. Yu, A. L. Chernyshev, A. R. Bishop, A. H. Castro Neto, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen
Phys. Rev. B 62, 4353 – Published 15 August 2000
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Abstract

The competition between long-range and short-range interactions among holes moving in an antiferromagnet (AF) is studied within a model derived from the spin-density-wave picture of layered transition metal oxides.A novel numerical approach is developed that allows one to solve the problem at finite hole densities in very large systems (of the order of hundreds of lattice spacings), albeit in a quasiclassical limit, and to correctly incorporate the long-range part of the Coulomb interaction. The focus is on the problem of charge ordering and the charge phase diagram: at low temperatures four different phases are found, depending on the strength of the magnetic (dipolar) interaction generated by the spin-wave exchange and the density of holes. The four phases are the Wigner crystal, diagonal stripes, a grid phase (horizontal-vertical stripe loops), and a glassy-clumped phase. In the presence of both in-plane and out-of-plane charged impurities the stripe ordering is suppressed, although finite stripe segments persist. At finite temperatures multiscale (intermittency) dynamics is found, reminiscent of that in glasses. The dynamics of stripe melting and its implications for experiments is discussed.

  • Received 24 November 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.4353

©2000 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Branko P. Stojković1, Z. G. Yu2, A. L. Chernyshev3,*, A. R. Bishop1, A. H. Castro Neto3, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen4

  • 1Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
  • 2Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
  • 3Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
  • 4Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720

  • *Also at the Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia.

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Vol. 62, Iss. 7 — 15 August 2000

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