Possible effects of charge frustration in Na$_x$CoO$_2$: bandwidth suppression, charge orders and resurrected RVB superconductivity

Details Possible effects of charge frustration in Na$_x$CoO$_2$: bandwidth suppression, charge orders and resurrected RVB superconductivity Possible effects of charge frustration in Na$_x$CoO$_2$: bandwidth suppression, charge orders and resurrected RVB superconductivity

2003-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310387v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages, 17 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.69.214516

Charge frustration due to further neighbor Coulomb repulsion can have dramatic effects on the electronic properties of Na$_x$CoO$_2$ in the full doping range. It can significantly reduce the effective mobility of the charge carriers, leading to a low degeneracy temperature $\epsilon_F \lesssim T$. Such strongly renormalized Fermi liquid has rather unusual properties--from the point of view of the ordinary metals with $\epsilon_F \gg T$--but similar to the properties that are actually observed in the Na$_x$CoO$_2$ system. For example, we show that the anomalous thermopower and Hall effect observed in Na$_{0.7}$CoO$_2$ may be interpreted along these lines. If the repulsion is strong, it can also lead to charge order; nevertheless, away from the commensurate dopings, the configurational constraints allow some mobility for the charge carriers, i.e., there remains some ``metallic'' component. Finally, the particularly strong bandwidth suppression around the commensurate $x=1/3$ can help resurrect the RVB superconductivity, which would otherwise not be expected near this high doping. These suggestions are demonstrated specifically for a $tJ$-like model with an additional nearest neighbor repulsion.

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