Title
Electronic structures of quasi-one-dimensional ferrimagnetic insulator Ca3Co2O6
Abstract
The electronic structures of quasi-one-dimensional ferrimagnetic Ca3Co2O6 are investigated using the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) as well as the GGA plus on-site Coulomb interaction (GGA+U) scheme. GGA+U calculations reveal that the interchain ferrimagnetic Ca3Co2O6 is a Mott–Hubbard insulator rather than a metal given from GGA. In addition, we found an on-site U induced 3z2−r2 orbital ordering on Copri sublattice which drives the intrachain ferromagnetic coupling along c-axis. Our findings suggest that strong electron-electron correlation plays an important role in Ca3Co2O6.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.cpc.2010.08.016
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
First-principles calculations,Orbital ordering,Strong correlation
Coulomb,Ferromagnetism,Coupling,Generalized gradient,Ferrimagnetism,Metal,Insulator (electricity),Condensed matter physics,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
182
1
0010-4655
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tay-Rong Chang100.68
Horng-Tay Jeng200.34
Chen-Shiung Hsue311.45