Issue |
EPL
Volume 85, Number 2, January 2009
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Article Number | 27008 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/85/27008 | |
Published online | 02 February 2009 |
Does hybrid density functional theory predict a non-magnetic ground state for
-Pu?
Physics Department, University of Texas at Arlington - Arlington, TX 76019, USA
Corresponding author: akr@uta.edu
Received:
4
August
2008
Accepted:
11
December
2008
Hybrid density functionals, which replace a fraction of density
functional theory (DFT) exchange with exact Hartree-Fock (HF) exchange, have
been used to study the structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of
-Pu. The fractions of exact
Hartree-Fock exchange used were 25%, 40%, and 55%. Compared to the
pure PBE functional, the lattice constants expanded with respect to the experimental value
when the PBE-HF hybrid functionals were applied. For pure PBE and hybrid functionals
with HF exchanges amounts of 25% and 40%, the ground state structure was
anti-ferromagnetic, while for 55% HF contribution the ground state was non-magnetic.
The
electrons tend to exhibit slight
delocalization or itinerancy for the pure PBE functional and well-defined localization for
the hybrid functionals, with the degree of
electron localization increasing with the amount of HF exchange. Overall, the performance
of the hybrid density functionals does not seem superior to pure density functionals for
-Pu.
PACS: 71.15.-m – Methods of electronic structure calculations / 71.15.Mb – Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections / 71.27.+a – Strongly correlated electron systems; heavy fermions
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