Varying Cu-Ti hybridization near the Fermi energy in Cu${}_x$TiSe${}_2$: Results from supercell calculations

Abstract

The properties of Cu${}_x$TiSe${}_2$ are studied by band structure calculation based on the density functional theory for supercells. The density-of-states (DOS) for $x$=0 has a sharply raising shoulder in the neighborhood of the Fermi energy, $E_F$, which can be favorable for spacial charge modulations. The Cu impurity adds electrons and brings the DOS shoulder below $E_F$. Hybridization makes the Ti-d DOS at $E_F$, the electron-phonon coupling and the Stoner factor very large. Strong pressure dependent properties are predicted from the calculations, since the DOS shoulder is pushed to higher energy at a reduced lattice constant. Effects of disorder are also expected to be important because of the rapidly varying DOS near $E_F$.

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