Density functional approach to study structural properties and Electric Field Gradients in rare earth materials

Details Density functional approach to study structural properties and Electric Field Gradients in rare earth materials Density functional approach to study structural properties and Electric Field Gradients in rare earth materials

2007-01-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701557v2

Physica B 349 (2004) 76

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

14 Pages, 3 Figures, 5 Tables

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physb.2004.01.153

We investigated the effect of spin polarization on the structural properties and gradient of electric field (EFG) on Sn, In, and Cd impurity in RSn$_3$ (R=Sm, Eu, Gd) and RIn$_3$ (R=Tm, Yb, Lu) compounds. The calculations were performed self-consistently using the scalar-relativistic full potential linearized augmented plane wave method. The local density approximations (LDA) and generalized gradient approximation without spin polarization (GGA) and with spin polarization (GGA+SP) to density functional theory were applied. In addition to that we performed some calculations within open core treatment (GGA+open core). It is clearly seen that GGA+SP is successful in predicting the larger lattice parameter and the dramatic drop of EFG for R=(Eu, Yb) relative to other rare earth compounds. This is an indication that spin splitting generated by spin polarization without any modification, is capable of treating properly the highly correlated f electrons in these systems.

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