Electronic structure of $RE$AuMg and $RE$AgMg ($RE$ = Eu, Gd, Yb)

Details Electronic structure of $RE$AuMg and $RE$AgMg ($RE$ = Eu, Gd, Yb) Electronic structure of $RE$AuMg and $RE$AgMg ($RE$ = Eu, Gd, Yb)

2005-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511511v1

Phys. Rev. B 74, 073102 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

4 pages, 3 figures, Brief Report

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.073102

We have investigated the electronic structure of the equiatomic EuAuMg, GdAuMg, YbAuMg and GdAgMg intermetallics using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The spectra revealed that the Yb and Eu are divalent while the Gd is trivalent. The spectral weight in the vicinity of the Fermi level is dominated by the mix of Mg $s$, Au/Ag $sp$ and $RE$ $spd$ bands, and not by the $RE$ $4f$. We also found that the Au and Ag $d$ bands are extraordinarily narrow, as if the noble metal atoms were impurities submerged in a low density $sp$ metal host. The experimental results were compared with band structure calculations, and we found good agreement provided that the spin-orbit interaction in the Au an Ag $d$ bands is included and correlation effects in an open $4f$ shell are accounted for using the local density approximation + Hubbard $U$ scheme. Nevertheless, limitations of such a mean-field scheme to explain excitation spectra are also evident.

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