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The electronic structure and selected zone-center phonons in Yb graphite intercalation compound (YbC6) are investigated {theoretically} using density functional calculations and LDA+U approximation for Coulomb correlations in the f shell,…
We report a magnetoconductivity tensor $\sigma$ for the intercalated graphite CaC$_6$, in the ground state of the uniaxial charge density wave (CDW), under conditions of coherent magnetic breakdown due to strong external magnetic field $B$…
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