LDA + DMFT study of the effects of correlation in LiFeAs

Johannes Ferber, Kateryna Foyevtsova, Roser Valentí, and Harald O. Jeschke
Phys. Rev. B 85, 094505 – Published 6 March 2012

Abstract

We discuss the role of electronic correlations in the iron-based superconductor LiFeAs by studying the effects on band structure, mass enhancements, and Fermi surface in the framework of density functional theory combined with dynamical mean field theory calculations. We conclude that LiFeAs shows characteristics of a moderately correlated metal and that the strength of correlations is mainly controlled by the value of the Hund's rule coupling J. The hole pockets of the Fermi surface show a distinctive change in form and size with implications for the nesting properties. Our calculations are in good agreement with recent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and de Haas-van Alphen experiments.

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  • Received 7 November 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.094505

©2012 American Physical Society

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Johannes Ferber*, Kateryna Foyevtsova, Roser Valentí, and Harald O. Jeschke

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany

  • *ferber@itp.uni-frankfurt.de

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Vol. 85, Iss. 9 — 1 March 2012

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