Van Hove Excitons and High-T$_c$ Superconductivity: VIIIC Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effects vs Spin-Orbit Coupling in the LTO Phase of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$

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3 March 1993

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9303020

Abstract

The possible role of the van Hove singularity (vHs) in stabilizing the low-temperature orthorhombic (LTO) phase transition in La$_{2-x}$\-Sr$_x$\-CuO$_ 4$ (LSCO) is discussed. It is found that the vHs can drive a structural distortion in two different ways, either due to spin-orbit coupling or to dynamic Jahn-Teller (JT) effects. This paper discusses the latter effect in some detail. It is shown that a model Hamiltonian introduced earlier to describe the coupled electron -- octahedral tilt motions (`cageons') has a series of phase transitions, from a high-temperature disordered JT phase (similar to the high-temperature tetragonal phase of LSCO) to an intermediate temperature dynamic JT phase, of average orthorhombic symmetry (the LTO phase) to a low temperature static JT phase (the low temperature tetragonal phase). For some parameter values, the static JT phase is absent.

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Version 1, 1993-03-03, ArXiv
Published version: Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications, 210 (1-2), 235.

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