Electronic Orders in the Verwey Structure of Magnetite

Details Electronic Orders in the Verwey Structure of Magnetite Electronic Orders in the Verwey Structure of Magnetite

2012-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/1201.5106v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

13 pages, 4 figures. Changes for version 2: Fig. 4 and corresponding discussion extended

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Electronic structure calculations of the Verwey ground state of magnetite, Fe3O4, using density functional theory with treatment of on-site Coulomb interactions (DFT+U scheme) are reported. These calculations use the recently-published experimental crystal structure coordinates for magnetite in the monoclinic space group Cc. The computed density distribution for minority spin electron states close to the Fermi level demonstrates that charge order and Fe2+-orbital order are present at the B-type lattice sites to a first-approximation. However, Fe2+/Fe3+ charge differences are diminished through weak bonding interactions of the Fe2+-states to specific pairs of neighboring iron sites that create linear, three-B-atom trimeron units that may be regarded as 'orbital molecules'. Trimerons are ordered evenly along most Fe atom chains in the Verwey structure, but more complex interactions are observed within one chain.

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