Electronic Phase Separation and Dramatic Inverse Band Renormalization in the Mixed-Valence Cuprate LiCu_{2}O_{2}

Physical Review Letters
S MoserM Grioni

Abstract

We measured, by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, the electronic structure of LiCu_{2}O_{2}, a mixed-valence cuprate where planes of Cu(I) (3d^{10}) ions are sandwiched between layers containing one-dimensional edge-sharing Cu(II) (3d^{9}) chains. We find that the Cu(I)- and Cu(II)-derived electronic states form separate electronic subsystems, in spite of being coupled by bridging O ions. The valence band, of the Cu(I) character, disperses within the charge-transfer gap of the strongly correlated Cu(II) states, displaying an unprecedented 250% broadening of the bandwidth with respect to the predictions of density functional theory. Our observation is at odds with the widely accepted tenet of many-body theory that correlation effects generally yield narrower bands and larger electron masses and suggests that present-day electronic structure techniques provide an intrinsically inappropriate description of ligand-to-d hybridizations in late transition metal oxides.

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