Electron Correlation and Jahn-Teller Interaction in Manganese Oxides

Abstract

The interplay between the electron repulsion $U$ and the Jahn-Teller electron-phonon interation $E_{LR}$ is studied with a large $d$ model for the ferromagnetic state of the manganese oxides. These two interactions collaborate to induce the local isospin (orbital) moments and reduce the bandwidth $B$. Especially the retardation effect of the Jahn-Teller phonon with the frequency $Ω$ is effective to reduce $B$, but the strong $Ω$-dependence occurs even when the Coulombic interaction is dominating ($ U >> E_{LR}$) as long as $E_{LR} > Ω$. The phonon spectrum consists of two components, i.e., the temperature independent sharp peak at $ω= {\tilde Ω} = Ω[(U +4 E_{LR})/U]^{1/2}$ and that corresponding to the Kondo peak. These results compared with the experiments suggest that $Ω<E_{LR} <U$ in the metallic manganese oxides.