Published March 5, 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

Orbital polarization and the insulating gap in the transition-metal oxides

Creators

  • 1. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (USA)

Description

It is shown that an orbital-polarization correction to a spin-polarized band-structure calculation leads to an insulating gap for CoO, in sharp contrast to a standard band calculation. Orbital-polarization instabilities, though, are not found for FeO and La2CuO4

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
64
Journal Issue
10
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
1162-1165
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA