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Electronic Structure and Fermiology of PuCoGa$_5$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

By using a relativistic linear augmented-plane-wave method, we clarify energy band structures and Fermi surfaces of recently discovered plutonium-based superconductor PuCoGa5_5. We find several cylindrical sheets of Fermi surfaces with large volume, very similar to CeMIn5_5 (M=Ir and Co) isostructural with PuCoGa5_5, in spite of different ff-electron numbers between Ce3+^{3+} and Pu3+^{3+} ions. The similarity is understood by a concept of electron-hole conversion in a tight binding model constructed based on the jj-jj coupling scheme. Based on the present results, we provide a possible scenario to explain why a transition temperature is so high as 18.5K in PuCoGa5_5.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212033,
  title  = {Electronic Structure and Fermiology of PuCoGa$_5$},
  author = {Takahiro Maehira and Takashi Hotta and Kazuo Ueda and Akira Hasegawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212033},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, Revtex, with 4 figures embedded in the text. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett