Band Structure and Transport Properties of CrO_2

Details Band Structure and Transport Properties of CrO_2 Band Structure and Transport Properties of CrO_2

1996-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/mtrl-th/9608006v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

LaTeX, 10 pages, 7 PostScript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.55.10253

Local Spin Density Approximation (LSDA) is used to calculate the energy bands of both the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases of metallic CrO_2. The Fermi level lies in a peak in the paramagnetic density of states, and the ferromagnetic phase is more stable. As first predicted by Schwarz, the magnetic moment is 2 \mu_B per Cr atom, with the Fermi level for minority spins lying in an insulating gap between oxygen p and chromium d states ("half-metallic" behavior.) The A_1g Raman frequency is predicted to be 587 cm^{-1}. Drude plasma frequencies are of order 2eV, as seen experimentally by Chase. The measured resistivity is used to find the electron mean-free path l, which is only a few angstroms at 600K, but nevertheless, resistivity continues to rise as temperature increases. This puts CrO_2 into the category of "bad metals" in common with the high T_c superconductors, the high T metallic phase of VO_2, and the ferromagnet SrRuO_3. In common with both SrRuO_3 and Sr_2RuO_4, the measured specific heat \gamma is higher than band theory by a renormalization factor close to 4.

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