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Effects of short-range order on the electronic structure of disordered metallic systems

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

For many years the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker coherent-potential approximation (KKR-CPA) has been widely used to describe the electronic structure of disordered systems based upon a first-principles description of the crystal potential. However, as a single-site theory the KKR-CPA is unable to account for important environmental effects such as short-range order (SRO) in alloys and spin fluctuations in magnets, amongst others. Using the recently devised KKR-NLCPA (where NL stands for nonlocal), we show how to remedy this by presenting explicit calculations for the effects of SRO on the electronic structure of the bcc Cu_{50}Zn_{50} solid solution.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0411347,
  title  = {Effects of short-range order on the electronic structure of disordered metallic systems},
  author = {Derwyn A. Rowlands and Julie B. Staunton and Balazs L. Gyorffy and Ezio Bruno and Beniamino Ginatempo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0411347},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures, Revised version