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Calculation of Effective Coulomb Interaction for $Pr^{3+}$, $U^{4+}$, and $UPt_3$

Condensed Matter 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

In this paper, the Slater integrals for a screened Coulomb interaction of the the Yukawa form are calculated and by fitting the Thomas-Fermi wavevector, good agreement is obtained with experiment for the multiplet spectra of Pr3+Pr^{3+} and U4+U^{4+} ions. Moreover, a predicted multiplet spectrum for the heavy fermion superconductor UPt3UPt_3 is shown with a calculated Coulomb U of 1.6 eV. These effective Coulomb interactions, which are quite simple to calculate, should be useful inputs to further many-body calculations in correlated electron metals.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9501111,
  title  = {Calculation of Effective Coulomb Interaction for $Pr^{3+}$, $U^{4+}$, and $UPt_3$},
  author = {M. R. Norman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9501111},
  year   = {2016}
}

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8 pages, revtex, 3 uuencoded postscript figures