Dynamical Correlations and Screened Exchange on the Experimental Bench: Spectral Properties of the Cobalt Pnictide BaCo2As2

Ambroise van Roekeghem (1) , Thomas Ayral (2) , Jan Tomczak , Michele Casula (3) , Nan Xu (4) , Hong Ding (5) , Michel Ferrero (6, 7, 8, 9) , Olivier Parcollet (2) , Hong Jiang (10) , Silke Biermann (11)

1 LSI - Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés - Irradiated Solids Laboratory
2 IPHT - Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681
3 IMPMC - Institut de minéralogie et de physique des milieux condensés
4 UNSW - University of New South Wales [Sydney]
5 Zhongshan Hospital
6 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
7 CPHT - Centre de Physique Théorique [Palaiseau]
8 Collège de France - Chaire Physique de la matière condensée (A. Georges)
9 CdF (institution) - Collège de France
10 University of Nebraska–Lincoln
11 JST - Japan Science and Technology Agency

Understanding the Fermi surface and low-energy excitations of iron or cobalt pnictides is crucial for assessing electronic instabilities such as magnetic or superconducting states. Here, we propose and implement a new approach to compute the low-energy properties of correlated electron materials, taking into account both screened exchange beyond the local density approximation and local dynamical correlations. The scheme allows us to resolve the puzzle of BaCo2As2, for which standard electronic structure techniques predict a ferromagnetic instability not observed in nature.

Domaines: Physique [physics]

Ambroise van Roekeghem, Thomas Ayral, Jan Tomczak, Michele Casula, Nan Xu, et al.. Dynamical Correlations and Screened Exchange on the Experimental Bench: Spectral Properties of the Cobalt Pnictide BaCo2As2. Physical Review Letters, 2014, 113 (26), pp.266403. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.266403⟩. ⟨hal-02363989v2⟩