Electronic correlation effects in superconducting picene from ab initio calculations (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Electronic correlation effects in superconducting picene from ab initio calculations (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2011-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.134508 (literal)
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  • Gianluca Giovannetti (1,2); Massimo Capone (1,3) (2011)
    Electronic correlation effects in superconducting picene from ab initio calculations
    in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics
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  • Gianluca Giovannetti (1,2); Massimo Capone (1,3) (literal)
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  • 1) ISC-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma \"La Sapienza,\" Piazzale A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy 2) Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, D-01171 Dresden, Germany 3) Democritos National Simulation Center, CNR-IOM and Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, Trieste, Italy (literal)
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  • Electronic correlation effects in superconducting picene from ab initio calculations (literal)
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  • We show, by means of ab initio calculations, that electron-electron correlations play an important role in potassium-doped picene (K(x)-picene), recently characterized as a superconductor with T(c) = 18 K. The inclusion of exchange interactions by means of hybrid functionals reproduces the correct gap for the undoped compound and predicts an antiferromagnetic state for x = 3, where superconductivity has been observed. These calculations, which do not require us to assume a value for the interaction strength, indirectly suggest that these materials should have a sizable ratio between the effective Coulomb repulsion U and the bandwidth. This is fully compatible with simple estimates of this ratio. Using these values of U in a simple effective Hubbard model, an antiferromagnetic state is indeed stabilized. Our results highlight the similarity between potassium-doped picene and alkali-doped fulleride superconductors. (literal)
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