Electrodynamics of correlated electron materials

DN Basov, RD Averitt, D Van Der Marel, M Dressel… - Reviews of Modern …, 2011 - APS
Studies of the electromagnetic response of various classes of correlated electron materials
including transition-metal oxides, organic and molecular conductors, intermetallic …

Colloquium: Identifying the propagating charge modes in doped Mott insulators

P Phillips - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
High-temperature superconductivity in the copper-oxide ceramics remains an unsolved
problem because we do not know what the propagating degrees of freedom are in the …

Strongly correlated superconductivity: A plaquette dynamical mean-field theory study

K Haule, G Kotliar - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2007 - APS
We use cluster dynamical mean-field theory to study the simplest models of correlated
electrons, the Hubbard model and the tJ model. We use a plaquette embedded in a medium …

Evidence of a Precursor Superconducting Phase at Temperatures as High as 180 K in Superconducting Crystals from Infrared Spectroscopy

A Dubroka, M Rössle, KW Kim, VK Malik, D Munzar… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We show that a multilayer analysis of the infrared c-axis response of R Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7-δ (R=
Y, Gd, Eu) provides important new information about the anomalous normal-state properties …

Doping dependent optical properties of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+ δ

J Hwang, T Timusk, GD Gu - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the ab-plane reflectance of the high temperature superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2
CaCu 2 O 8+ δ (Bi-2212). Measurements on samples spanning the doping range from …

Tunability of the dielectric function of heavily doped germanium thin films for mid-infrared plasmonics

J Frigerio, A Ballabio, G Isella, E Sakat, G Pellegrini… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Heavily doped semiconductor thin films are very promising for application in mid-infrared
plasmonic devices because the real part of their dielectric function is negative and broadly …

Mott Physics near the Insulator-To-Metal Transition in

MK Stewart, J Liu, M Kareev, J Chakhalian, DN Basov - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
An optical study of NdNiO 3 ultrathin films with insulating and metallic ground states reveals
new aspects of the insulator-to-metal transition that point to Mott physics as the driving force …

Energetic balance of the superconducting transition across the BCS—Bose Einstein crossover in the attractive Hubbard model

A Toschi, M Capone, C Castellani - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2005 - APS
We investigate by means of Dynamical mean-field theory the crossover from BCS
superconductivity to Bose-Einstein (BE) condensation of preformed pairs which occurs in the …

Optical properties across the insulator to metal transitions in vanadium oxide compounds

A Perucchi, L Baldassarre, P Postorino… - Journal of Physics …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the optical properties of three vanadium oxide compounds V 2 O 3, VO 2 and V 3
O 5, belonging to the so-called Magnéli phase. Their electrodynamics across a metal to …

Mott physics and the optical conductivity of electron-doped cuprates

AJ Millis, A Zimmers, R Lobo, N Bontemps… - Physical Review B …, 2005 - APS
The doping-and temperature-dependent conductivity of electron-doped cuprates is
analyzed. The variation of kinetic energy with doping is shown to imply that the materials are …