Importance of d-p Coulomb interaction for high T$_C$ cuprates and other oxides

Abstract

Current theoretical studies of electronic correlations in transition metal oxides typically only account for the local repulsion between d-electrons even if oxygen ligand p-states are an explicit part of the effective Hamiltonian. Interatomic interactions such as Upd between d- and (ligand) p-electrons, as well as the local interaction between p-electrons, are neglected. Often, the relative d-p orbital splitting has to be adjusted "ad hoc" on the basis of the experimental evidence. By applying the merger of local density approximation and dynamical mean field theory (LDA+DMFT) to the prototypical case of the 3-band Emery dp model for the cuprates, we demonstrate that, without any "ad hoc" adjustment of the orbital splitting, the charge transfer insulating state is stabilized by the interatomic interaction Upd. Our study hence shows how to improve realistic material calculations that explicitly include the p-orbitals.

17 pages, 6 figures, our study shows that U_pd is the physics behind previous ad-hoc shifts of the d-p level splitting