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Electronic structure study of vanadium spinels by using density functional theory and dynamical mean field theory
Theoretically, various physical properties of AVO (A=Zn, Cd and
Mg) spinels have been extensively studied for last 15 years. Besides of this,
no systematic comparative study has been done for these compounds, where the
material specific parameters are used. Here, we report the comparative
electronic behaviour of these spinels by using a combination of density
functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory, where the self-consistent
calculated Coulomb interaction and Hund's coupling (determined by
Yukawa screening ) are used. The main features, such as insulating
band gaps (), degree of itinerancy of V 3 electrons and position of
lower Hubbard band are observed for these parameters in these spinels. The
calculated values of for ZnVO, CdVO and
MgVO are found to be 0.9 eV, 0.95 eV and 1.15 eV,
respectively, where the values of are close to experiment for
ZnVO and MgVO. The position of lower Hubbard band are
observed around -1.05 eV, -1.25 eV and -1.15 eV for
ZnVO, CdVO and MgVO, respectively, which
are also in good agreement with the experimental data for ZnVO. The
order of average impurity hybridization function of V site are found to be
ZnVOMgVOCdVO. Hence, the degree of
localization of V 3 electrons is largest for CdVO and smallest
for ZnVO, which is in accordance with our earlier results. Hence,
present work shows the importance of material specific parameters to understand
the comparative electronic behaviour of these compounds.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Probabilistic Archetypal Analysis
Archetypal analysis represents a set of observations as convex combinations
of pure patterns, or archetypes. The original geometric formulation of finding
archetypes by approximating the convex hull of the observations assumes them to
be real valued. This, unfortunately, is not compatible with many practical
situations. In this paper we revisit archetypal analysis from the basic
principles, and propose a probabilistic framework that accommodates other
observation types such as integers, binary, and probability vectors. We
corroborate the proposed methodology with convincing real-world applications on
finding archetypal winter tourists based on binary survey data, archetypal
disaster-affected countries based on disaster count data, and document
archetypes based on term-frequency data. We also present an appropriate
visualization tool to summarize archetypal analysis solution better.Comment: 24 pages; added literature review and visualizatio
Property Type, Size, and REIT Value
This study documents the wide deviation of securitized real estate assets in equity REITs from the value of the underlying commercial properties. A procedure for estimating the net asset value of REITs is developed and the estimates are used to investigate the sources of premiums/discounts from net asset value in a large sample of equity REITs. To avoid measurement error bias, two-way analysis of variance is used to test for differences among size and property-type categories. The results indicate that retail REITs trade at significant premiums relative to the average REIT while warehouse/industrial REITs trade at discounts and small REITs trade at significant discounts while large REITs trade at premiums. The discounts and premiums from net asset value do not translate into higher cash flow yields.
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