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We have carried out theoretical investigations of electron correlation effects on the atomic properties of the Ca atom trapped inside an attractive spherically symmetric potential well of an endohedral fullerene C$_{60}$ cluster.…
We investigate the interplane magnetic coupling of the multilattice compound Y_2Ba_4Cu_7O_{15} by means of a bilayer Hubbard model with inequivalent planes. We evaluate the spin response, effective interaction and the intra- and interplane…
We report a series of electronic structure calculations for CrN using different exchange correlation potentials: PBE, LDA+$U$, the Tran-Blaha modified Becke-Johnson, and hybrid functionals. In every case, our calculations show that the…
We use density functional theory to study the structural, magnetic and electronic structure of the organo-metallic quantum magnet $\mathrm{NiCl_2-4SC(NH_2)_2}$ (DTN). Recent work has demonstrated the quasi-1D nature of the molecular crystal…
We present the results of a recently developed approach where the interplay between the itinerant and localized character of electrons in narrow band materials is described by adding on-site correlation effects to a first principle band…
To clarify the nature of correlations in Hund metals and its relationship with Mott physics we analyze the electronic correlations in multiorbital systems as a function of intraorbital interaction U, Hund's coupling JH and electronic…
The structural and magnetic properties of spinel compounds $CoB_2O_4$ (B=Cr,Mn and Fe) are studied using the DFT+U method and generalized gradient approximation (GGA). We concentrate on understanding the trends in the properties of these…
The magnetic ground states of $R_2$Ru$_2$O$_7$ and $A_2$Ru$_2$O$_7$ with $R=$ Pr, Gd, Ho, and Er, as well as $A=$ Ca, Cd are predicted devising a combination of the cluster-multipole (CMP) theory and spin-density-functional theory (SDFT).…
The intriguing physics and rich application potential of strongly correlated first-row transition metal oxide compounds result from the complex interplay of several factors that influence the electronic structure. To shed light on the…
We have investigated the interplay between magnetic and structural degrees of freedom in elemental Mn. The equilibrium volume is shown to depend critically on the magnetic interactions between the Mn atoms. While the standard…
We study spatial correlation effects in multiorbital systems, especially in a paramagnetic metallic state subject to Hund's coupling. We apply a cluster extension of the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) to the three-orbital Hubbard model…
We review recent results on the properties of materials with correlated electrons obtained within the LDA+DMFT approach, a combination of a conventional band structure approach based on the local density approximation (LDA) and the…
A two-layer Heisenberg antiferromagnet is studied as a model of the bilayer cuprate YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_6$. Quantum Monte Carlo results are presented for the temperature dependence of the spin correlation length, the static structure factor,…
The electronic structure of Nickel dichalcogenides, NiS$_2$ and NiSe$_2$, in monolayer form, is studied employing first-principles methods. We assess the importance of band ordering, covalency and Coulomb interactions in the ground state of…
Using ab initio dynamical mean-field theory we explore the electronic and magnetic states of layered Li$_x$MnO$_2$ as a function of $x$, the state of charge. Constructing real-space Wannier projections of Kohn-Sham orbitals based on the…
Collective electronic fluctuations in correlated materials give rise to various important phenomena, such as existence of the charge ordering, superconductivity, Mott insulating and magnetic phases, plasmon and magnon modes, and other…
In this work, we present electronic and magnetic properties of CaMnO3 (CMO) as obtained from ab initio calculations. We identify the preferable magnetic order by means of density functional theory plus Hubbard U calculations and extract the…
We employ a combination of density functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory to investigate the electronic structure of the recently synthesized insulator BaCrO$_3$. Our calculations show that Hund's coupling is responsible for…
We present a low-scaling diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach to molecular correlation energies. Using combinatorial graph theory to encode many-body Hugenholtz diagrams, we sample the M{\o}ller-Plesset (MPn) perturbation series, obtaining…
The effect of a magnetic field on Mott-Hubbard systems is investigated by studying the half-filled Hubbard model in the limit of infinite dimensions. A first-order metamagnetic transition between the strongly correlated metal and the Mott…