Polarization catastrophe in doped cuprates and metal-ammonia solutions: an analogy

Details Polarization catastrophe in doped cuprates and metal-ammonia solutions: an analogy Polarization catastrophe in doped cuprates and metal-ammonia solutions: an analogy

2002-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0209459v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of ECRYS-2002, to be published in Journal de Physique IV

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On doping polar dielectrics, such as the cuprates or liquid ammonia, the long range polarization leads to the formation of bound states (polarons or solvated electrons). However, the exact role of such entities in the metal-insulator transition (MIT) still remains unclear. We suggest that the driving mechanism of the MIT is a polarization catastrophe that occurs due to their unscreened Coulomb interaction. This phenomenon is associated to a negative static dielectric constant, which could be the origin of both the superconducting transition in the cuprates -- where the doping ions are frozen in the lattice structure -- and the phase separation observed in liquid metal-ammonia solutions -- where the counter-ions are mobile.

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