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The Electronic Correlation Strength of Pu

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 نشر من قبل Robert Albers
 تاريخ النشر 2012
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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An electronic quantity, the correlation strength, is defined as a necessary step for understanding the properties and trends in strongly correlated electronic materials. As a test case, this is applied to the different phases of elemental Pu. Within the GW approximation we have surprisingly found a universal scaling relationship, where the f-electron bandwidth reduction due to correlation effects is shown to depend only on the local density approximation bandwidth and is otherwise independent of crystal structure and lattice constant.



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