Electronic structure of rare-earth nitrides using the LSDA+U approach: Importance of allowing 4f orbitals to break the cubic crystal symmetry

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Larson, P ^a   Lambrecht, Walter R L ^a   Chantis, Athanasios ^b   Van Schilfgaarde, Mark ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

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EID: 33846401134     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.045114     Document Type: Article

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