Effects of the Fermi-surface shrinking on the optical sum rule in pnictides

L. Benfatto and E. Cappelluti
Phys. Rev. B 83, 104516 – Published 22 March 2011

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the effects of the band shifts induced by the interband spin-fluctuation coupling on the optical sum rule in pnictides. We show that, despite the shrinking of the Fermi surfaces with respect to first-principles calculations, the charge-carrier concentration in each band is almost unchanged, with a substantial conservation of the total optical sum rule. However, a significant transfer of spectral weight occurs from low-energy coherent processes to incoherent ones that is carried out integrating the data up to a finite cutoff, with practical consequences on the experimental estimate of the sum rule. This has profound consequences both on the absolute value of the sum rule and on its temperature dependence, which must be taken into account while discussing optical experiments in these systems.

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  • Received 29 November 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.104516

©2011 American Physical Society

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L. Benfatto and E. Cappelluti

  • Institute for Complex Systems (ISC), CNR, U.O.S. Sapienza and Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, P. le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy

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Vol. 83, Iss. 10 — 1 March 2011

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