Optical response of metallic and insulating VO2 calculated with the LDA approach

Details Optical response of metallic and insulating VO2 calculated with the LDA approach Optical response of metallic and insulating VO2 calculated with the LDA approach

2006-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608462v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/19/34/346225

We calculated the optical response of metallic and insulating VO2 using the LDA approach. The band structure calculation was based in the full-potential linear-muffin-tin method. The imaginary part of the dielectric function e2(w) is related to the different optical transitions. The Drude tail in the calculation of the metallic phase corresponds to intra-band d-d transitions. The calculation in the insulating phase is characterized by the transitions to the d||* band. The low frequency features, 0.0-5.0 eV, correspond to V 3d-V 3d transitions, whereas the high frequency structures, 5.0-12 eV, are related to O 2p-V 3d transitions. The calculation helps to explain the imaginary part of the dielectric function e2(w), as well as the electron-energy-loss and reflectance spectra. The results reproduce not only the energy position and relative intensity of the features in the spectra, but also the main changes across the metal-insulator transition and the polarization dependence. The main difference is a shift of about 0.6 eV in the calculation of the insulating phase. This discrepancy arises because the LDA calculation underestimates the value of the band gap.

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