Electron correlation and Fermi surface topology of Na$_x$CoO$_2$

Details Electron correlation and Fermi surface topology of Na$_x$CoO$_2$ Electron correlation and Fermi surface topology of Na$_x$CoO$_2$

2005-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503346v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 206401 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 4 figures, revtex4; minor changes, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.206401

The electronic structure of Na$_x$CoO$_2$ revealed by recent photoemission experiments shows important deviations from band theory predictions. The six small Fermi surface pockets predicted by LDA calculations have not been observed as the associated $e_g^\prime$ band fails to cross the Fermi level for a wide range of sodium doping concentration $x$. In addition, significant bandwidth renormalizations of the $t_{2g}$ complex have been observed. We show that these discrepancies are due to strong electronic correlations by studying the multi-orbital Hubbard model in the Hartree-Fock and strong-coupling Gutzwiller approximation. The quasiparticle dispersion and the Fermi surface topology obtained in the presence of strong local Coulomb repulsion are in good agreement with experiments.

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