Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2004-07-08
Physical Review B 70, 184205 (2004)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
5 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.70.184205
The electronic structure of the rational approximants 1/1 Cd6Yb and 1/1 Cd6Ca to the stable icosahedral CdYb and CdCa quasicrystals is studied by the full-potential linear augmented plane wave method. A comparison is made between several structural models. We show that the (relativistic) spin-orbit (SO) interaction and electronic correlations that are not described by the usual local density approximation, are essential for an accurate description of the electronic structure. In particular, we show that the SO interaction is responsible for a splitting of the Cd-4d and Yb-4f peaks, and that the experimental peak positions can be reproduced by including a Hubbard U term in the Hamiltonian [U(Cd) = 5.6 eV, U(Yb) = 3.1 eV]. Our results show very good agreement with a photo-emission (PE) spectrum of 1/1 Cd6Yb [R. Tamura, Y. Murao, S. Takeuchi, T. Kiss, T. Yokoya, and S. Shin, Phys. Rev. B 65, 224207 (2002)] and a 350 eV PE spectrum of 1/1 Cd6Ca, which we present in this paper. Without the relativistic and correlation effects even a qualitative agreement with the PE spectra cannot be achieved.
Bose Saurabh K.
Tamura Ryo
Zijlstra Eeuwe S.
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