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Ground-state properties of rutile: electron-correlation effects

Materials Science 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Electron-correlation effects on cohesive energy, lattice constant and bulk compressibility of rutile are calculated using an ab-initio scheme. A competition between the two groups of partially covalent Ti-O bonds is the reason that the correlation energy does not change linearly with deviations from the equilibrium geometry, but is dominated by quadratic terms instead. As a consequence, the Hartree-Fock lattice constants are close to the experimental ones, while the compressibility is strongly renormalized by electronic correlations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9804139,
  title  = {Ground-state properties of rutile: electron-correlation effects},
  author = {Krzysztof Rosciszewski and Klaus Doll and Beate Paulus and Peter Fulde and Hermann Stoll},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9804139},
  year   = {2009}
}

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1 figure to appear in Phys. Rev. B