Anomalous effective charges and far IR optical absorption of Al$_2$Ru from first principles

Details Anomalous effective charges and far IR optical absorption of Al$_2$Ru from first principles Anomalous effective charges and far IR optical absorption of Al$_2$Ru from first principles

1996-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/mtrl-th/9608004v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 4 Postscript figure files, revtex

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For the orthorhombic intermetallic semiconductor Al$_2$Ru, the bandstructure, valence charge density, zone center optical phonon frequencies, and Born effective charge and electronic dielectric tensors are calculated using variational density functional perturbation theory with {\em ab initio} pseudopotentials and a plane wave basis set. Good agreement is obtained with recent measurements on polycrystalline samples which showed anomalously strong far IR absorption by optical phonons, while analysis of the valence charge density shows that the static ionic charges of Al and Ru are negligible. Hybridization is proposed as the single origin both of the semiconducting gap and the anomalous Born effective charges. Analogous behavior is expected in related compounds such as NiSnZr, PbTe, skutterudites, and Al-transition-metal quasicrystals.

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