Optical study of 4f excitations in rare earth cuprates

Several recent examples are used to demonstrate that Raman and infrared spectroscopy can be successfully used as a novel experimental tool to study microscopic processes involving 4f electrons in rare earth (RE) cuprates. Raman-active crystal field (CF) excitations in Nd₂CuO₄ were measured under hyd...

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Автор: Nekvasil, V.
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Опубліковано: Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України 2002
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Optical study of 4f excitations in rare earth cuprates / V.Nekvasil // Физика низких температур. — 2002. — Т. 28, № 7. — С. 739-744. — Бібліогр.: 28 назв. — англ.
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https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/130230
Several recent examples are used to demonstrate that Raman and infrared spectroscopy can be successfully used as a novel experimental tool to study microscopic processes involving 4f electrons in rare earth (RE) cuprates. Raman-active crystal field (CF) excitations in Nd₂CuO₄ were measured under hydrostatic pressure up to ∼7 GPa. The observed pressure-induced shifts of the CF levels were interpreted using density-functional-theory-based ab initio calculations and the superposition model. An infrared transmission study of the ⁴Ij, J=9/2, 11/2, 13/2 multiplets of Nd³⁺ in Nd₂CuO₄ reveals a splitting of the Kramers doublets of the order of a few cm⁻¹ due to the Nd-Cu exchange interaction. This study shows that these splittings can be described by an effective anisotropic exchange Hamiltonian for the Nd³⁺ ion expressed in terms of spherical tensor operators up to the sixth order. The isotropic term in the exchange Hamiltonian vanishes for symmetry reasons in this case. An analysis of the infrared transmission spectra in RE₁₊xBa₂₋xCu3O₆₊δ (RE=Nd,Sm) up to ∼ 10 000 cm⁻¹ indicates that, besides the regular sites, the RE ions also occupy Ba sites, even in the samples with the cation stoichiometry 1–2–3.
The assistance of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic in the form of its grant No. 202/00/1602 is gratefully acknowledged.
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Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України
Физика низких температур
Магнетизм
Optical study of 4f excitations in rare earth cuprates
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title Optical study of 4f excitations in rare earth cuprates
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Nekvasil, V.
Магнетизм
title_short Optical study of 4f excitations in rare earth cuprates
title_full Optical study of 4f excitations in rare earth cuprates
title_fullStr Optical study of 4f excitations in rare earth cuprates
title_full_unstemmed Optical study of 4f excitations in rare earth cuprates
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description Several recent examples are used to demonstrate that Raman and infrared spectroscopy can be successfully used as a novel experimental tool to study microscopic processes involving 4f electrons in rare earth (RE) cuprates. Raman-active crystal field (CF) excitations in Nd₂CuO₄ were measured under hydrostatic pressure up to ∼7 GPa. The observed pressure-induced shifts of the CF levels were interpreted using density-functional-theory-based ab initio calculations and the superposition model. An infrared transmission study of the ⁴Ij, J=9/2, 11/2, 13/2 multiplets of Nd³⁺ in Nd₂CuO₄ reveals a splitting of the Kramers doublets of the order of a few cm⁻¹ due to the Nd-Cu exchange interaction. This study shows that these splittings can be described by an effective anisotropic exchange Hamiltonian for the Nd³⁺ ion expressed in terms of spherical tensor operators up to the sixth order. The isotropic term in the exchange Hamiltonian vanishes for symmetry reasons in this case. An analysis of the infrared transmission spectra in RE₁₊xBa₂₋xCu3O₆₊δ (RE=Nd,Sm) up to ∼ 10 000 cm⁻¹ indicates that, besides the regular sites, the RE ions also occupy Ba sites, even in the samples with the cation stoichiometry 1–2–3.
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