Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2006-12-10
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 036212 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
23 pages, 8 figures. To appear in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/19/3/036212
The transition metal K-edge x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) studies have been carried on LaBO3 (B=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni), La2CuO4 and SrMnO3 compounds. The theoretical spectra have been calculated using transition metal (TM) 4p density of states (DOS) obtained from full-potential LMTO density functional theory. The exchange-correlation functional used in this calculation is taken under local density approximation (LDA). The comparison of experimental spectra with the calculated ones indicates that single-particle transitions under LDA are sufficient to generate all the observed XANES including those which have earlier been attributed to many-body shake-up transitions and core-hole potentials. The present study reveals that all the experimentally observed features are mainly due to distribution in TM 4p DOS influenced by hybridization with other orbitals. Specifically, for LaMnO3, the feature earlier attributed to shake-up process is seen to arise from hybridization of Mn 4p with La 6p and O 2p orbitals; in La2CuO4 the features attributed to core hole potential correspond to hybridization of Cu 4p with La 6p, La 5d and O 2p orbitals. To see the effect of inhomogeneous electronic charge distribution and on-site Coulomb and exchange interaction (U) on the XANES of these compounds generalized-gradient approximation and U corrections are incorporated in the calculations. These corrections do not generate any new features in the spectra but affect the detailed intensity and positions of some of the features.
Khalid Samina
Pandey Sudhir K.
Pimpale A. V.
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