Oxygen-vacancy driven electron localization and itinerancy in rutile-based TiO$_2$
| Autor: | Lechermann, Frank, Heckel, Wolfgang, Kristanovski, Oleg, Müller, Stefan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. B 95, 195159 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.195159 |
| Popis: | Oxygen-deficient TiO$_2$ in the rutile structure as well as the Ti$_3$O$_5$ Magn{\'e}li phase is investigated within the charge self-consistent combination of density functional theory (DFT) with dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). It is shown that an isolated oxygen vacancy (V$_{\rm O}$) in titanium dioxide is not sufficient to metallize the system at low temperatures. In a semiconducting phase, an in-gap state is identified at $\varepsilon_{\rm IG}^{\hfill}\sim -0.75\,$eV\, in excellent agreement with experimental data. Band-like impurity levels, resulting from a threefold V$_{\rm O}$-Ti coordination as well as entangled $(t_{2g},e_g)$ states, become localized due to site-dependent electronic correlations. Charge localization and strong orbital polarization occur in the V$_{\rm O}$-near Ti ions, which details can be modified by a variation of the correlated subspace. At higher oxygen vacancy concentration, a correlated metal is stabilized in the Magn{\'e}li phase. A V$_{\rm O}$-defect rutile structure of identical stoichiometry shows key differences in the orbital-resolved character and the spectral properties. Charge disproportionation is vital in the oxygen-deficient compounds, but obvious metal-insulator transitions driven or sustained by charge order are not identified. Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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