Optical pseudogap from iron states in filled skutterudites AFe4Sb12 (A=Yb, Ca, Ba) |
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Authors: | Sichelschmidt J Voevodin V Im H J Kimura S Rosner H Leithe-Jasper A Schnelle W Burkhardt U Mydosh J A Grin Yu Steglich F |
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Institution: | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, N?thnitzer Strasse 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Optical investigations are presented of the filled skutterudites AFe4Sb12 with divalent cations A=Yb, Ca, Ba. For each of these compounds a very similar pseudogap structure in the optical conductivity develops in the far-infrared spectral region at temperatures below 90 K. Highly accurate local-density approximation electronic band structure calculations can consistently explain the origin of the pseudogap structure generated largely by transition metal 3d states. In particular, a 4f-conduction electron hybridization or strong correlations can be ruled out as origin for the pseudogap. |
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