Generalized susceptibility of a quasi-one-dimensional system with periodic potential: A model for the organic superconductor (TMTSF)2ClO4

Abstract

The nesting vector and the magnetic susceptibility of the quasi-one-dimensional system having imperfectly nested Fermi surface are studied analytically and numerically. The magnetic susceptibility has the plateaulike maximum in sweptback region in the momentum space, which is surrounded by Q=(2kF,π)+qi (kF is the Fermi wave number i=1,3,4 and q1, q3, and q4 are given in this paper). The best nesting vector, at which the susceptibility χ0(Q) has the absolute maximum at T=0, is obtained near but not at the inflection point Q=(2kF,π)+q4. The effect of the periodic potential V on the susceptibility is studied, which is important for the successive transitions of the field-induced spin-density wave in (TMTSF)2ClO4. We obtain that the sweptback region (surrounded by q2, q3, and q4 when V>0) becomes small as V increases and it shrinks to q3 for V≥4tb′, where tb′ gives the degree of imperfect nesting of the Fermi surface, i.e., the second harmonics of the warping in the Fermi surface. The occurrence of the sign reversal of the Hall coefficient in the field-induced spin-density wave states is discussed to be possible only when V<2tb′−2t4, where t4 is the amplitude of the fourth harmonics of the warping in the Fermi surface. This gives the limitation for the magnitude of V.

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