BAND-STRUCTURE METHOD FOR 4F ELECTRONS IN ELEMENTAL PR METAL

被引:70
作者
TEMMERMAN, WM [1 ]
SZOTEK, Z [1 ]
WINTER, H [1 ]
机构
[1] KERNFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE GMBH,INST NUKL FESTKORPERPHYS,W-7500 KARLSRUHE 1,GERMANY
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1993年 / 47卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.47.1184
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We implement the self-interaction correction to the local-density approximation (LDA) for elemental double hexagonal-close-packed (dhcp) Pr metal. We find that the occupied f bands are split by approximately 10 eV from the unoccupied ones. The occupied f bands occur well below the bottom of the conduction band, while the unoccupied f bands strongly hybridize with the conduction s, p, and d bands, creating flat d bands at the Fermi level. The on-site Coulomb energy for the localized electrons, U(ff), is about 12 eV, and the Fermi surface consists of four sheets of predominantly d character, in agreement with de Haas-van Alphen experiment. We estimate mass enhancement lambda to be 1.6, in contrast to a frozen-core LDA value of 4.5.
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页码:1184 / 1189
页数:6
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