Tight-binding modelling of the electronic band structure of layered superconducting perovskites

Details Tight-binding modelling of the electronic band structure of layered superconducting perovskites Tight-binding modelling of the electronic band structure of layered superconducting perovskites

2000-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0001049v1

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter Vol. 12 (2000), pp. 143-159

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

21 pages, 10 figures, published in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter (complete and corrected References section)

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/12/2/305

A detailed tight-binding analysis of the electron band structure of the CuO_2 plane of layered cuprates is performed within a sigma-band Hamiltonian including four orbitals - Cu3d_x^2-y^2, Cu4s, O2p_x, and O2p_y. Both the experimental and theoretical hints in favor of Fermi level located in a Cu or O band, respectively, are considered. For these two alternatives analytical expressions are obtained for the LCAO electron wave functions suitable for the treatment of electron superexchange. Simple formulae for the Fermi surface and electron dispersions are derived by applying the Loewdin down-fold procedure to set up the effective copper and oxygen Hamiltonians. They are used to fit the experimental ARUPS Fermi surface of Pb_0.42Bi_1.73Sr_1.94Ca_1.3Cu_1.92O_8+x and both the ARPES and LDA Fermi surface of Nd_2-xCe_xCuO_4-delta. The value of presenting the hopping amplitudes as surface integrals of ab initio atomic wave functions is demonstrated as well. The same approach is applied to the RuO_2 plane of the ruthenate Sr_2RuO_4. The LCAO Hamiltonians including the three in-plane pi-orbitals Ru4d_xy, O_a 2p_y, O_b 2p_x and the four transversal pi-orbitals Ru4d_zx, Ru4d_yz, O_a 2p_z, O_b 2p_z, are separately considered. It is shown that the equation for the constant energy curves and the Fermi contours has the same canonical form as the one for the layered cuprates.

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