Valency of rare earths in RIn3 and RSn3: Ab initio analysis of electric-field gradients

Details Valency of rare earths in RIn3 and RSn3: Ab initio analysis of electric-field gradients Valency of rare earths in RIn3 and RSn3: Ab initio analysis of electric-field gradients

2002-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212020v2

Phys. Rev. B 66, 195103 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

10 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.66.195103

In RIn3 and RSn3 the rare earth (R) is trivalent, except for Eu and Yb, which are divalent. This was experimentally determined in 1977 by perturbed angular correlation measurements of the electric-field gradient on a 111Cd impurity. At that time, the data were interpreted using a point charge model, which is now known to be unphysical and unreliable. This makes the valency determination potentially questionable. We revisit these data, and analyze them using ab initio calculations of the electric-field gradient. From these calculations, the physical mechanism that is responsible for the influence of the valency on the electric-field gradient is derived. A generally applicable scheme to interpret electric-field gradients is used, which in a transparent way correlates the size of the field gradient with chemical properties of the system.

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