Spin-orbital mechanisms for negative thermal expansion in Ca2RuO
arXiv:2303.04951 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.104403
Abstract
The phenomenon of negative thermal expansion (NTE) deals with the increase of the lattice parameters and the volume of the unit cell when the material is thermally cooled. The NTE is typically associated with thermal phonons and anomalous spin-lattice coupling at low temperatures. However, the underlying mechanisms in the presence of strong electron correlations in multi-orbital systems are not yet fully established. Here, we investigate the role of Coulomb interaction in the presence of lattice distortions in setting out the NTE effect, by focusing on the physical case of layered CaRuO with configuration at each Ru ion site. We employ the Slater-Koster parametrization to describe the electron-lattice coupling through the dependence of the hybridization on the Ru-O-Ru bond angle. The evaluation of the minimum of the free energy at finite temperature by fully solving the multi-orbital many-body problem on finite size cluster allows us to identify the regime for which the system is prone to exhibit NTE effects. The analysis shows that the nature of the spin-orbital correlations is relevant to drive the reduction of the bond angle by cooling, and in turn the tendency toward a NTE. This is confirmed by the fact that a changeover of the electronic and orbital configuration from to by transition metal substitution is shown to favor the occurrence of NTE in CaRuO. This finding is in agreement with the experimental observations of a NTE effect which is significantly dependent on the transition metal substitution in the CaRuO compound.
arXiv comment20 pages, 14 figures, published in Physical Review B
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