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JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
Volume 77, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.77.034708
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charge order; organic conductor; extended Hubbard model; electron-lattice coupling; Hartree-Fock approximation
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Charge ordering with structural distortion in quasi-two-dimensional organic conductors theta-(ET)(2)RbZn(SCN)(4) (ET = BEDT-TTF) and alpha-(ET)(2)I-3 is investigated theoretically. By using the Hartree-Fock approximation for an extended Hubbard model which includes both on-site and intersite Coulomb interactions together with Peierls-type electron-lattice couplings, we examine the role of lattice degrees of freedom on charge order. It is found that the experimentally observed, horizontal charge order is stabilized by lattice distortion in both compounds. In particular, the lattice effect is crucial to the realization of the charge order in theta-(ET)(2)RbZn(SCN)(4), while the peculiar band structure whose symmetry is lower than that of theta-(ET)(2)RbZn(SCN)(4) in the metallic phase is also an important factor in alpha(ET)(2)I-3 together with the lattice distortion. For alpha-(ET)(2)I-3, we obtain a phase transition from a charge-disproportionated metallic phase to the horizontal charge order with lattice modulations, which is consistent with the latest X-ray experimental result.
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