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Title: Orbital-dependent correlations in PuCoGa 5

Journal Article · · Physical Review B
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  1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
  2. Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy
  3. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy; Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department

In this study, we investigate the normal state of the superconducting compound PuCoGa5 using the combination of density functional theory (DFT) and dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), with the continuous time quantum Monte Carlo (CTQMC) and the vertex-corrected one-crossing approximation (OCA) as the impurity solvers. Our DFT+DMFT (CTQMC) calculations suggest a strong tendency of Pu-5f orbitals to differentiate at low temperatures. The renormalized 5f5/2 states exhibit a Fermi-liquid behavior whereas one electron in the 5f7/2 states is at the edge of a Mott localization. We find that the orbital differentiation is manifested as the removing of 5f7/2 spectral weight from the Fermi level relative to DFT. Finally, we corroborate these conclusions with DFT+DMFT (OCA) calculations which demonstrate that 5f5/2 electrons have a much larger Kondo scale than the 5f7/2.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; FG02-99ER45761; AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1473655
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1461912
Report Number(s):
BNL-209065-2018-JAAM; PRBMDO
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Vol. 98, Issue 3; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 5 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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