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Yukitoshi Motome

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Spectral Function Analysis on Spin Dynamics in Double-Exchange Systems with Randomness

Spin excitation spectrum is studied in the double-exchange model with randomness. Applying the spin wave approximation and the spectral function analysis, we examine excitation energy and linewidth using analytical as well as numerical methods. For small wave number $q \sim 0$, the excitation energy is cosine-like and the linewidth shows a $q$-linear behavior. This indicates that the spin excitation becomes incoherent or localized near $q = 0$. Crossover takes place to marginally-coherent regime where both the excitation energy and the linewidth are proportional to $q^2$. The incoherence is due to local fluctuations of the kinetic energy of electrons. Comparison with experimental results in colossal magnetoresistance manganites suggests that spatially-correlated or mesoscopic-scale fluctuations are more important in real compounds than local or atomic-scale ones.

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Spin-wave Hamiltonian in double-exchange systems

A simple derivation of the effective spin-wave Hamiltonian for a double-exchange system with infinitely large Hund's-rule coupling is demonstrated. The formalism can be applied to models with arbitrary range of hopping as well as those with randomness. The result shows that, within the leading order of the 1/S expansion, one magnon excitation spectrum can be described by the Heisenberg model.

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Semiclassical Analysis of Extended Dynamical Mean Field Equations

The extended Dynamical Mean Field Equations (EDMFT) are analyzed using semiclassical methods for a model describing an interacting fermi-bose system. We compare the semiclassical approach with the exact QMC (Quantum Montecarlo) method. We found the transition to an ordered state to be of the first order for any dimension below four.

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Impurity Effect on Ferromagnetic Transition in Double-Exchange Systems

Effect of randomness in the double-exchange model is studied. Large fluctuations and spatial random distribution of impurities are taken into account in an essentially exact manner by using the Monte Carlo calculation. The randomness suppresses the ferromagnetism by reducing the coherence of itinerant electrons. The suppression is significant in the critical region where the fluctuations are dominant. Temperature dependences of the magnetization are estimated for finite-size clusters. A characteristic temperature for phase transition $T^{*}$ is estimated from the inflection point, which is expected to give a good approximation for the critical temperature in the thermodynamic limit. Our results suggest that the ferromagnetism becomes unstable more rapidly than predicted in the previous theoretical results by the coherent-potential approximation.

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Anomaly in Spin Excitation Spectrum of Double-Exchange Systems with Randomness

Spin excitation spectrum of the double-exchange model is studied in the presence of randomness. Spin wave approximation in the ground state shows that the randomness significantly modifies the spectrum from the cosine-like one in the pure system to that with anomalies such as broadening, anti-crossing and gap opening. The origin of anomalies is speculated to be modulation of effective ferromagnetic coupling by the Friedel oscillation. These anomalies qualitatively reproduce the spin excitation spectrum in colossal magnetoresistance manganites whose Curie temperatures are relatively low. Our results suggest that randomness control is an important notion to understand effects of the A-site substitution which has previously been understood as the bandwidth control.

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Critical Exponents for the Ferromagnetism in Colossal Magnetoresistance Manganites

Critical phenomena of ferromagnetic transition in colossal magnetoresistance manganites are theoretically studied. Concerning the critical exponents for this transition, there still remains controversy among experimental results. In order to clarify intrinsic physics of the manganites through a comparison with theoretical prediction, we investigate the critical phenomena of double-exchange models by using finite-size scaling analysis on unbiased numerical results. As a result, we show that the critical exponents of the ferromagnetic transition of the three-dimensional double-exchange model is consistent with those of the Heisenberg model, but are distinct from the mean-field one.

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Non-equilibrium Relaxation Study of Ferromagnetic Transition in Double-Exchange Systems

Ferromagnetic transition in double-exchange systems is studied by non-equilibrium relaxation technique combined with Monte Carlo calculations. Critical temperature and critical exponents are estimated from relaxation of the magnetic moment. The results are consistent with the previous Monte Carlo results in thermal equilibrium. The exponents estimated by these independent techniques suggest that the universality class of this transition is the same as that of short-range interaction models but is different from the mean-field one.

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Monte Carlo Algorithm for the Double Exchange Model Optimized for Parallel Computations

A new algorithm for Monte Carlo calculation of the double exchange model is studied. The algorithm is commonly applicable to wide classes of strongly correlated electron systems which involve itinerant electrons coupled with thermodynamically fluctuating fields. Using moment expansions of the density of states with Chebyshev polynomials, the algorithm provides an efficient calculation on large size clusters, especially on parallel computers. Benchmark calculations are performed on Beowulf-type cluster systems with over 100 CPUs in parallel.

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Critical Phenomena of Ferromagnetic Transition in Double-Exchange Systems

Critical phenomena of ferromagnetic transition at finite temperatures are studied in double-exchange systems. In order to investigate strong interplay between charge and spin degrees of freedom, Monte Carlo technique is applied to include fluctuations in a controlled and unbiased manner. By using finite-size scaling analysis, critical exponents and transition temperature are estimated for a model with Ising spin symmetry in two dimensions. The obtained exponents are far distinct from the mean-field values, but consistent with those of spin models with short-range exchange interactions. The universality class of this transition belongs to that of short-range interaction with the same spin symmetry. We also discuss the case for three dimensions. The results are compared with experimental results in perovskite manganites which show colossal magnetoresistance.

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Critical Temperature of Ferromagnetic Transition in Three-Dimensional Double-Exchange Models

Ferromagnetic transition in three-dimensional double-exchange models is studied by the Monte Carlo method. Critical temperature $T_{\rm c}$ is precisely determined by finite-size scaling analysis. Strong spin fluctuations in this itinerant system significantly reduce $T_{\rm c}$ from mean-field estimates. By choosing appropriate parameters, obtained values of $T_{\rm c}$ quantitatively agree with experiments for the ferromagnetic metal regime of (La,Sr)MnO$_{3}$, which is a typical perovskite manganite showing colossal magnetoresistance. This indicates that the double-exchange mechanism alone is sufficient to explain $T_{\rm c}$ in this material. Critical exponents are also discussed.

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A Monte Carlo Method for Fermion Systems Coupled with Classical Degrees of Freedom

A new Monte Carlo method is proposed for fermion systems interacting with classical degrees of freedom. To obtain a weight for each Monte Carlo sample with a fixed configuration of classical variables, the moment expansion of the density of states by Chebyshev polynomials is applied instead of the direct diagonalization of the fermion Hamiltonian. This reduces a cpu time to scale as $O(N_{\rm dim}^{2} \log N_{\rm dim})$ compared to $O(N_{\rm dim}^{3})$ for the diagonalization in the conventional technique; $N_{\rm dim}$ is the dimension of the Hamiltonian. Another advantage of this method is that parallel computation with high efficiency is possible. These significantly save total cpu times of Monte Carlo calculations because the calculation of a Monte Carlo weight is the bottleneck part. The method is applied to the double-exchange model as an example. The benchmark results show that it is possible to make a systematic investigation using a system-size scaling even in three dimensions within a realistic cpu timescale.

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Effects of Boson Dispersion in Fermion-Boson Coupled Systems

We study the nonlinear feedback in a fermion-boson system using an extension of dynamical mean-field theory and the quantum Monte Carlo method. In the perturbative regimes (weak-coupling and atomic limits) the effective interaction among fermions increases as the width of the boson dispersion increases. In the strong coupling regime away from the anti-adiabatic limit, the effective interaction decreases as we increase the width of the boson dispersion. This behavior is closely related with complete softening of the boson field. We elucidate the parameters that control this nonperturbative region where fluctuations of the dispersive bosons enhance the delocalization of fermions.

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Incoherent Charge Dynamics in Perovskite Manganese Oxides

A minimal model is proposed for the perovskite manganese oxides showing the strongly incoherent charge dynamics with a suppressed Drude weight in the ferromagnetic and metallic phase near the insulator. We investigate a generalized double-exchange model including three elements; the orbital degeneracy of $e_g$ conduction bands, the Coulomb interaction and fluctuating Jahn-Teller distortions. We demonstrate that Lancz$\ddot{\rm o}$s diagonalization calculations combined with Monte Carlo sampling of the largely fluctuating lattice distortions result in the optical conductivity which quantitatively accounts for the experimental indications. It is found that all the three elements are indispensable to understand the charge dynamics in these compounds.

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Effects of Orbital Degeneracy and Electron Correlation on Charge Dynamics in Perovskite Manganese Oxides

Taking the orbital degeneracy of $e_g$ conduction bands and the Coulomb interaction into account in a double-exchange model, we investigate charge dynamics of perovskite Mn oxides by the Lancz$\ddot{\rm o}$s diagonalization method. In the metallic phase near the Mott insulator, it is found that the optical conductivity for a spin-polarized two-dimensional system exhibits a weight transfer to a broad and incoherent structure within the lower-Hubbard band together with a suppressed Drude weight. It reproduces qualitative feature of the experimental results. As an orbital effect, we find that an anomalous charge correlation at quarter filling suppresses the coherent charge dynamics and signals precursor to the charge ordering.

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Ordering and Fluctuation of Orbital and Lattice Distortion in Perovskite Manganese Oxides

Roles of orbital and lattice degrees of freedom in strongly correlated systems are investigated to understand electronic properties of perovskite Mn oxides such as La_{1-x}Sr_{x}MnO_{3}. An extended double-exchange model containing Coulomb interaction, doubly degenerate orbitals and Jahn-Teller coupling is derived under full polarization of spins with two-dimensional anisotropy. Quantum fluctuation effects of Coulomb interaction and orbital degrees of freedom are investigated by using the quantum Monte Carlo method. In undoped states, it is crucial to consider both the Coulomb interaction and the Jahn-Teller coupling in reproducing characteristic hierarchy of energy scales among charge, orbital-lattice and spin degrees of freedom in experiments. Our numerical results quantitatively reproduce the charge gap amplitude as well as the stabilization energy and the amplitude of the cooperative Jahn-Teller distortion in undoped compounds. Upon doping of carriers, in the absence of the Jahn-Teller distortion, critical enhancement of both charge compressibility and orbital correlation length is found with decreasing doping concentration. These are discussed as origins of strong incoherence in charge dynamics. With the Jahn-Teller coupling in the doped region, collapse of the Jahn-Teller distortion and instability to phase separation are obtained and favorably compared with experiments. These provide a possible way to understand the complicated properties of lightly doped manganites.

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Metal-Insulator Transition in Mn Perovskite Compounds

We discuss Mott insulating and metallic phases of a model with $e_g$ orbital degeneracy to understand physics of Mn perovskite compounds. Quantum Monte Carlo and Lanczos diagonalization results are discussed in this model. To reproduce experimental results on charge gap and Jahn-Teller distortions, we show that a synergy between the strong correlation effects and the Jahn-Teller coupling is important. The incoherent charge dynamics and strong charge fluctuations are characteristic of the metallic phase accompanied with critical enhancement of short-ranged orbital correlation near the insulator.

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Effects of Electron Correlation, Orbital Degeneracy and Jahn-Teller Coupling in Perovskite Manganites

Roles of Coulomb interaction, orbital degeneracy and Jahn-Teller coupling in double-exchange models are examined for Mn perovskite oxides. We study the undoped Mott insulator as well as metal-insulator transitions by hole doping, and especially strong incoherence of ferromagnetic metal. We derive models where all the spins are fully polarized in two-dimensional planes as in the experimental indications, and investigate their ground-state properties by quantum Monte Carlo method. At half filling where the number of $e_{g}$ electron is one per site on average, the Coulomb interaction opens a Mott gap and induces a staggered orbital ordering. The opening of the Mott gap is, however, substantially slower than the mean-field results if the Jahn-Teller coupling is absent. The synergy between the strong correlation and the Jahn-Teller coupling largely enhances the Mott gap amplitude and reproduces realistic amplitudes and stabilization energy of the Jahn-Teller distortion. Upon doping, the orbital ordering stabilized by the Coulomb interaction is destroyed immediately. Toward the metal-insulator transition, the short-ranged orbital correlation is critically enhanced in metals, which should be related to strong incoherence of charge dynamics observed in experiments. Our model, moreover, exhibits a uniform ordering of $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$ orbital in a wide region of doping in agreement with experimental indications.

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Metal-Insulator and Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Correlated Electron Systems

Quantum transitions between the Mott insulator and metals by controlling filling in two-dimensional square lattice are characterized by a large dynamical exponent $z=4$ where the origin of unusual metallic properties near the Mott insulator are ascribed to the proximity of the transition. The scaling near the transition indicates the formation of flat dispersion area due to singular momentum dependence of the single-particle renormalization. The flat dispersion controls critical properties of the Mott transition. An instability of the flat dispersion to the d-wave superconducting order is discussed. We also discuss a case of the Mott transition for a model of Mn perovskite compounds with orbital degeneracy where orbital correlation length shows critical divergence toward the metal-insulator transition.

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