Anisotropy of the optical conductivity of a pnictide superconductor from the undoped three-orbital Hubbard model
Xiaotian Zhang, Elbio Dagotto
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.132505 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
The resistivity anisotropy unveiled in the study of detwinned single crystals of the undoped 122 pnictides is here studied using the two-dimensional, three-orbital Hubbard model in the mean-field approximation. Calculating the Drude weight in the x and y directions at zero temperature for a Q=(π,0) magnetically ordered state, the conductance along the antiferromagnetic direction is shown to be larger than along the ferromagnetic direction. This effect is caused by the suppression of the dyz orbital at the Fermi surface, but additional insight based on the momentum dependence of the transitions induced by the current operator is provided. It is shown that the effective suppression of the interorbital hopping dxy and dyz along the y direction is the main cause of the anisotropy.
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