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Temperature dependence of optical spectral weights in quarter-filled ladder systems

Markus Aichhorn, Peter Horsch, Wolfgang von der Linden, Mario Cuoco

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0108465

Abstract

The temperature dependence of the integrated optical conductivity I(T) reflects the changes of the kinetic energy as spin and charge correlations develop. It provides a unique way to explore experimentally the kinetic properties of strongly correlated systems. We calculated I(T) in the frame of a t-J-V model at quarter-filling for ladder systems, like NaV2O5, and show that the measured strong T dependence of I(T) for NaV2O5 can be explained by the destruction of short range antiferromagnetic correlations. Thus I(T) provides detailed information about super-exchange and magnetic energy scales.

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