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Spin-phonon interaction and band effects in the high-TC superconductor HgBa2CuO4

T. Jarlborg

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0305438

Abstract

Band calculations show that a stripe-like anti-ferromagnetic spin wave is enforced by a 'half-breathing' phonon distortion within the CuO plane of HgBa2CuO4. This spin-phonon coupling is increased further by shear distortion and by increased distance between Cu and apical oxygens. The effects from spin-phonon coupling are consistent with many observations in high-TC materials. Spin-phonon coupling can be important for the mechanism of spin fluctuations and superconductivity, although the effects are quantitatively weak when using the local density potential.

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