Optical Properties of Correlated Materials -- or Why Intelligent Windows may look Dirty

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2009-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1575v1

Phys. Status Solidi B 246, 1996 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

11 pages, 4 figures, Phys. Status Solidi B 246, in print (2009), also available as psi-k Scientific Highlight of the Month, no

Scientific paper

10.1002/pssb.200945231

Materials with strong electronic Coulomb correlations play an increasing role in modern materials applications. "Thermochromic" systems, which exhibit thermally induced changes in their optical response, provide a particularly interesting case. The optical switching associated with the metal-insulator transition of vanadium dioxide, for example, has been proposed for use in numerous applications, ranging from anti-laser shields to "intelligent" windows, which selectively filter radiative heat in hot weather conditions. Are present-day electronic structure techniques able to describe, or -- eventually even predict -- such a kind of behavior ? How far are we from materials design using correlated oxides ? These are the central questions we try to address in this article. We review recent attempts of calculating optical properties of correlated materials within dynamical mean field theory, and summarize results for vanadium dioxide obtained within a novel scheme aiming at particularly simple and efficient calculations of optical transition matrix elements within localized basis sets. Finally, by optimizing the geometry of "intelligent windows", we argue that this kind of technique can in principle be used to provide guidance for experiments, thus giving a rather optimistic answer to the above questions.

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