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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 73, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.245101
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We investigate the nature of the electronic ground state and electron-lattice couplings for doped chains of CuO4 plaquettes or CuO6 octahedra. The undoped configuration implies here Cu 3d(9) and O 2p(6) formal valence states. The results of multiconfiguration calculations on 4-plaquette (or 4-octahedra) linear clusters indicate strong electron-lattice interactions and polaronic behavior of the doped particles, for both electron and hole doping. For certain phases of the oxygen-ion half-breathing distortions a multiwell energy landscape is predicted. Since each well is associated to carriers localized at different sites, the half-breathing displacements induce charge transfer along the chain. In the case of hole doping, the trends found by ab initio multiconfiguration calculations on 4-octahedra clusters are confirmed by density-matrix renormalization-group calculations for a p-d, extended Hubbard model with chains of few tens of CuO4 plaquettes. Under the assumption of charge separation and the formation of 1/3-doped stripes, our results seem to support the traveling charge-density wave scenario proposed in some recent contributions for superconductivity in copper oxides.
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