Obtaining correct orbital ground states in $f$ electron systems using a nonspherical self-interaction corrected LDA+$U$ method

Details Obtaining correct orbital ground states in $f$ electron systems using a nonspherical self-interaction corrected LDA+$U$ method Obtaining correct orbital ground states in $f$ electron systems using a nonspherical self-interaction corrected LDA+$U$ method

2009-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2700v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

11 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

The electronic structure of lanthanide and actinide compounds is often characterized by orbital ordering of localized $f$-electrons. Density-functional theory (DFT) studies of such systems using the currently available LDA+$U$ method are plagued by significant orbital-dependent self-interaction, leading to erroneous orbital ground states. An alternative scheme that modifies the exchange, not Hartree, energy is proposed as a remedy. We show that our LDA+$U$ approach reproduces the expected degeneracy of $f^1$ and $f^2$ states in free ions and the correct ground states in solid PrO$_2$. We expect our method to be useful in studying compounds of $f$- and heavy-$d$ elements.

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