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Sylvain Landron
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We used quantum chemical ab initio methods to determine the effective parameters of Hubbard and $t-J$ models for the $rm Na_{x}CoO_2$ compounds (x=0 and 0.5). As for the superconducting compound we found the $a_{1g}$ cobalt orbitals above the $e_g^prime$ ones by a few hundreds of meV due to the $e_g^prime$--$e_g$ hybridization of the cobalt $3d$ orbitals. The correlation strength was found to increase with the sodium content $x$ while the in-plane AFM coupling decreases. The less correlated system was found to be the pure $CoO_2$, however it is still strongly correlated and very close to the Mott transition. Indeed we found $U/tsim 15$, which is the critical value for the Mott transition in a triangular lattice. Finally, one finds the magnetic exchanges in the $rm CoO_2$ layers, strongly dependant of the weak local structural distortions.
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