Lattice normal modes and electronic properties of the correlated metal LaNiO$_3$

Details Lattice normal modes and electronic properties of the correlated metal LaNiO$_3$ Lattice normal modes and electronic properties of the correlated metal LaNiO$_3$

2011-05-01

arxiv.org/abs/1105.0198v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

14 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.144101

We use density functional theory (DFT) calculations to study the lattice vibrations and electronic properties of the correlated metal LaNiO$_3$. To characterize the rhombohedral to cubic structural phase transition of perovskite LaNiO$_3$, we examine the evolution of the Raman-active phonon modes with temperature. We find that the $A_{1g}$ Raman mode, whose frequency is sensitive to the electronic band structure, is a useful signature to characterize the octahedral rotations in rhombohedral LaNiO$_3$. We also study the importance of electron--electron correlation effects on the atomic structure with two approaches which go beyond the conventional band theory (local spin density approximation): the local spin density+Hubbard $U$ method (LSDA$+U$) and hybrid exchange-correlation density functionals which include portions of exact Fock-exchange. We find the conventional LSDA accurately reproduces the delocalized nature of the valence states in LaNiO$_3$ and gives the best structural and vibrational agreement to the available experimental data. Based on our calculations, we show that the electronic screening effect from the delocalized Ni 3$d$ and O-2$p$ states mitigate the electronic correlations of the $d^7$ Ni cations, making LaNiO$_3$ a weakly correlated metal.

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