Based on a two-dimensional extended Hubbard model with electron-phonon interaction, we have studied the effect of polaron formation on the charge ordering (CO) transition. It is found that for fully ferromagnetically ordered spins the CO state may go through a process of appearance, collapse and reappearance with decreasing temperature. This is entirely due to a emperature-dependent polaron bandwidth. On the other hand, when a paramagnetic spin state is considered, only a simple reentrant behavior of the CO transition is found, which is only partly due to polaron effect. This model is proposed as an explanation of the observed reentrant behavior of the CO transition in the layered manganite LaSr2Mn2O7.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9904015,
title = {Reentrant charge ordering caused by polaron formation},
author = {Qingshan Yuan and Peter Thalmeier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9904015},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 eps figures, revised version accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett