Quasiparticle band structure of lanthanum hydride

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作者
Chang, EK [1 ]
Blase, X
Louie, SG
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Div Mat Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Univ Lyon 1, Dept Phys Mat, UMR 5586, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2001年 / 64卷 / 15期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.64.155108
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T [工业技术];
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We address the problem of the ground-state character of LaH3, a semiconductor compound predicted to be semimetallic within density-functional theory. An ab initio, quasiparticle calculation is peformed whose. results indicate a very large 1.1 eV opening of the band gap. Such results are obtained using the GW approximation in the calculation of the self-energy operator. The results are compared to existing experimental data.
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