Charge density wave transition and instability in interchain coupled organic ferromagnets with next-nearest-neighbor hopping interaction

Abstract

Considering interchain interaction and the intrachain next-nearest-neighbor hopping interaction, within the self-consistent-field Hartree–Fock approximation, we deal with two neighboring organic ferromagnetic chains. We take into account the π-electrons, the Hubbard repulsion, and antiferromagnetic correlation between π-electrons and side radical electrons. It is shown that there appear to be two kinds of charge density waves successively when the next-nearest-neighbor hopping interaction is greater than a critical value, which decreases with the interchain coupling. The first charge density wave is accompanied by a bond order wave and the second one has no lattice distortion. The spin density wave along the main chain is modulated by the charge density wave. It is also found that the interchain coupling and the next-nearest-neighbor hopping integral destabilizes the ferromagnetic ground states.