Nominal doping and partition of doped holes between planar and apical orbitals in La2xSrxCuO4

E. S. Božin and S. J. L. Billinge
Phys. Rev. B 72, 174427 – Published 29 November 2005

Abstract

By considering both the average structural parameters obtained from Rietveld refinement of neutron powder diffraction data, and the local structural parameters obtained from the atomic pair distribution function, we have tested the recent hypothesis of Perry et al. [Phys. Rev. B 65, 144501 (2002)] that doping in a La2xSrxCuO4 system occurs as localized defects of predominantly Cud3z2r2Opz character associated with the Sr dopants accompanied by a local destruction of the Jahn-Teller distortion. While the structural parameters behave qualitatively according to the prediction of this model, a quantitative analysis indicates that doped holes predominantly appear in the planar Cudx2y2Opx,y band as is normally assumed. However, a small amount of the doped charge does enter the Cud3z2r2Opz orbitals and this should be taken into account when theoretical phase diagrams are compared to experiment. We present a calibration curve, p=x[1.00(1)0.45(7)x], for the planar charge doping, p, vs strontium content, x, for the La2xSrxCuO4 system.

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  • Received 16 August 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.174427

©2005 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

E. S. Božin and S. J. L. Billinge*

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA

  • *Electronic address: bozin@pa.msu.edu; URL:http://nirt.pa.msu.edu/

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Vol. 72, Iss. 17 — 1 November 2005

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