Pressure-Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in Hematite from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory

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2008-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/0810.2864v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146402 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.146402

The Local Density Approximation combined with Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (LDA+DMFT method) is applied to the study of the paramagnetic and magnetically ordered phases of hematite Fe$_2$O$_3$ as a function of volume. As the volume is decreased, a simultaneous 1st order insulator-metal and high-spin to low-spin transition occurs close to the experimental value of the critical volume. The high-spin insulating phase is destroyed by a progressive reduction of the charge gap with increasing pressure, upon closing of which the high spin phase becomes unstable. We conclude that the transition in Fe$_2$O$_3$ at $\approx$50 GPa can be described as an electronically driven volume collapse.

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