Electronic structure and electric-field gradients analysis in CeIn3CeIn_3

Electric field gradients (EFG's) were calculated for the $CeIn_3$ compound at both $^{115}In$ and $^{140}Ce$ sites. The calculations were performed within the density functional theory (DFT) using the augmented plane waves plus local orbital (APW+lo) method employing the so-called LDA+U scheme. The $CeIn_3$ compound were treated as nonmagnetic, ferromagnetic, and antiferromagnetic cases. Our result shows that the calculated EFG's are dominated at the $^{140}Ce$ site by the Ce-4f states. An approximately linear relation is intuited between the main component of the EFG's and total density of states (DOS) at Fermi level. The EFG's from our LDA+U calculations are in better agreement with experiment than previous EFG results, where appropriate correlations had not been taken into account among 4f-electrons. Our result indicates that correlations among 4f-electrons play an important role in this compound and must be taken into account

C atom endohedral doping effect on the bond lengths in the crystal structure of fcc-C60

Single and double equilibrium bond lengths of the fcc-C60 crystal were calculated in the absence and presence of the endohedral C atom as an impurity doped into each C60 cluster, i.e., fcc-C@C60, by means of fully-relaxed self-consistent calculations within the density functtional theory (DFT) employing the full potential-augmented plane waves plus local orbital (FP-APW+lo) method. The result shows that the single and double bond lengths were decreased for the doped case of fcc-C@C60 when compared with the pure fcc-C60. The reduction in the bond lengths by the carbon impurity doping is attributed to the bond alternation effect and reduction of the symmetry in the C60 molecule. The result shows that the impurity injection gives rise to change in the electron charge distribution and as a result to change in electronic properties

Electronic properties of antiferromagnetic UBi2 metal by exact exchange for correlated electrons method

This study investigated the electronic properties of antiferromagnetic UBi2 metal by using ab initio calculations based on the density functional theory (DFT), employing the augmented plane waves plus local orbital method. We used the exact exchange for correlated electrons (EECE) method to calculate the exchange-correlation energy under a variety of hybrid functionals. Electric field gradients (EFGs) at the uranium site in UBi2 compound were calculated and compared with the experiment. The EFGs were predicted experimentally at the U site to be very small in this compound. The EFG calculated by the EECE functional are in agreement with the experiment. The densities of states (DOSs) show that 5f U orbital is hybrided with the other orbitals. The plotted Fermi surfaces show that there are two kinds of charges on Fermi surface of this compound

Band structure of fcc-C60 solid state crystal study

We studied the architecture of the C60 cluster to drive its atomic positions which can be seen at room temperature. We then used the obtained carbon positions as a basis set for the fcc structure to construct the fcc-C60 compound. Self consistent calculations were performed based on the density functional theory (DFT) utilizing the accurate WIEN2K code to solve the single-particle Kohen-Sham equation within the augmented plane waves plus local orbital (APW+lo) method. The cohesive energy has been found to be 1.537 eV for the fcc-C60 . The calculated small cohesive energy that results from the weak Van der Waals-London interactions among a C60 cluster with its nearest neighbors is in good agreement with experiment. The electron densities of states (DOSs) were calculated for a C60 macromolecule as well as the fcc-C60 compound and the results were compared with each other. The band gap from DOS calculations has been found to be 0.7 eV. Band structures were also calculated within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). The band structure calculation results in 1.04 eV for the direct band gap. Two kinds of σ and π bonds were determined in the band structure. Our results are in good agreement with experiment and pseudopotential calculations

Ab initio study of solid CeIn3 at high pressures

  Electric field gradients (EFG’s) at the In sites and spin magnetic moments at the Ce sites were calculated for the case of solid CeIn3. The calculations were performed by increasing pressure gradually from -5 to +22 GPa within the density functional theory (DFT) using the augmented plane waves plus local orbital (APW+lo) method employing the well-known PBE-GGA+U and WC-GGA+U schemes. The results almost show a linear reduction of spin magnetic moments of Ce by gradually increasing the pressure from -5 GPa to 22 GPa. However, from our results one can see that the calculated electric field gradients at the In site are growing up by increasing the pressure. We have compared the EFG’s at zero pressure with experimental and theoretical results of the others. The comparison shows that at ambient pressure our EFG’s are more consistent with experiment than the results of the other groups. Our result shows that the calculated spin magnetic moments are suppressed in the vicinity of some quantum critical point