Electronic and magnetic properties of a quasi-one-dimensional spin chain system, Sr$_{3}$NiRhO$_{6}$

Details Electronic and magnetic properties of a quasi-one-dimensional spin chain system, Sr$_{3}$NiRhO$_{6}$ Electronic and magnetic properties of a quasi-one-dimensional spin chain system, Sr$_{3}$NiRhO$_{6}$

2008-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/0804.2781v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

7 pages, 7 figures and 1 table

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.045120

We investigate the electronic structure of Sr$_3$NiRhO$_6$, a quasi-one-dimensional spin chain system using \emph{ab initio} band structure calculations. Spin polarized calculations within GGA reveal that Ni and Rh have finite moments and they are antiferromagnetically coupled along the chain axis in the ground state. While these results obtained within the local spin density approximations provide remarkable representation of the magnetic phase, the experimentally observed insulating behavior could not be captured within this method. GGA+$U$ calculations show that opening up of an insulating gap requires on-site Coulomb interaction among the Rh 4$d$ electrons, $U_{dd}^{Rh}$ $\approx$ 2.5 eV and the correlation among Ni 3$d$ electrons, $U_{dd}^{Ni}$ $\approx$ 4.5 eV suggesting this system to be a Mott insulator. Electron correlation among $d$ electrons leads to significant enhancement of the O 2$p$ character in the energy bands in the vicinity of the Fermi level and the $d$ bands appear at lower energies. Energy gap in the up spin density of states appears to be significantly small ($\sim$ 0.12 eV) while it is $>$ 2 eV in the down spin density of states suggesting possibility of spin polarized conduction in the semiconducting phase.

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