Optics of Chromites and Charge-Transfer Transitions

Abstract

Specific features of the charge-transfer (CT) states and O2p→Cr3d transitions in the octahedral (CrO6)9− complex are considered in the cluster approach. The reduced matrix elements of the electric-dipole transition operator are calculated on many-electron wave functions of the complex corresponding to the initial and final states of a CT transition. Modeling the optic spectrum of chromites has yielded a complicated CT band. The model spectrum is in satisfactory agreement with experimental data which demonstrates the limited validity of the generally accepted concept of a simple structure of CT spectra.