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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 47: Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: Many-Body Effects on the Nano-Scale III

O 47.2: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 18. März 2015, 11:00–11:15, MA 004

Role of atomic multiplets in intermediate valence SmB6 and PuB6 systems — •Alexander B. Shick1, Alexander I. Lichtenstein2, and Mikhail I. Katsnelson31Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic — 2Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany — 3Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

The materials with strong electron correlations are important because of the fundamental properties, and the technological applications. Recently, SmB6 (as well as PuB6) was proposed as 3D topological insulator [1]. The electronic structure calculations are performed combining the LDA with an exact diagonalization of the Anderson impurity model [2] for [Sm,Pu]B6. For the Sm atom in SmB6, intermediate valence ground state (GS) is found with the f-shell occupation ⟨ n4f ⟩=5.6. The GS is a singlet, and the first excited triplet state ∼ 3 meV higher in the energy. The f-orbital density of states is in agreement with experimental PE spectra. SmB6 is a narrow band insulator already in LDA, with the direct band gap of ∼ 10 meV. The electron correlations increase the band gap which now becomes indirect. For the Pu atom in PuB6, we also find intermediate valence (⟨ n5f ⟩=5.5) singlet GS. The calculations illustrate that many-body effects are relevant to form the indirect band gap, and support the idea of "topological Kondo insulator" in SmB6. [1] M. Dzero et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 106408 (2010); [2] A. B. Shick et al., Phys. Rev. B 87, 020505(R) (2013).

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