Electronic properties of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 superlattices: Induced charge density, Fermi surfaces, and optical excitation spectra

Se Young Park

Columbia University, Physics, New York, USA

We present the charge density profile, Fermi surface topology, and optical excitation spectra of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures using a tight-binding model. With self-consistent Hartree approximation, we find that only one yz and one xz bands are occupied which give dominant contributions to the long-distance tail of the induced interface charge. We also study the optical excitation spectra by calculating dielectric function with random phase approximation and compare the spectra with experimental data.

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