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We use first-principles calculations to study the effect of magnetic disorder and electron correlations on the structural and thermodynamic properties of CrN. We illustrate the usability of a special quasirandom structure supercell…
The electronic structure and magnetism of chromia (corundum-type Cr2O3) are studied using full-potential first-principles calculations. The electronic correlations are included within the LSDA+U method. The energies of different magnetic…
We calculate the electronic and atomic structure of (MnO)n (n=1-4) using the HF exchange, VWN, PBE and B3LYP exchange-correlation functionals. We also perform diffusion Monte Carlo calculation to evaluate more accurate energies. We ompare…
The method of electronic structure calculations for strongly correlated disordered materials is developed employing the basic idea of coherent potential approximation (CPA). Evolution of electronic structure and spin magnetic moment value…
First principles density functional theory based calculations have been carried out to predict the effects of Mn replacement by Fe and Cr on electronic as well as magnetic properties of Pt$_{2}$MnGa as well as Ni$_{2}$MnGa. All the…
In previous papers we showed that a division of the f-shell into two subsystems gives a better understanding of cohesive properties as well the general behavior of lanthanide systems. In this paper we present numerical computations using…
In this work we use density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the influence of semi-local exchange and correlation effects on the electronic and optical properties of zinc oxide. We find that the inclusion of such effects using the…
We compute the equilibrium crystal structure and phase stability of iron at the alpha(bcc)-gamma(fcc) phase transition as a function of temperature, by employing a combination of ab initio methods for calculating electronic band structures…
An ab initio study of magnetic exchange interactions in antiferromagnetic and strongly correlated 3d transition metal monoxides is presented. Their electronic structure is calculated using the local self-interaction correction approach,…
The electronic structure of CrO_2 is critically discussed in terms of the relation of existing experimental data and well converged LSDA and GGA calculations of the electronic structure and transport properties of this half metal magnet,…
A novel hybrid scheme is proposed. The {\it ab initio} LDA calculation is used to construct the Wannier functions and obtain single electron and Coulomb parameters of the multiband Hubbard-type model. In strong correlation regime the…
The electronic structures of the cubic and tetragonal $\mathrm{MnV}_2\mathrm{O}_4$ have been studied by using hybrid-exchange density functional theory. The computed electronic structure of the tetragonal phase shows an anti-ferro orbital…
The electronic structure and thermodynamical properties of uranium trihydrides ($\alpha$-UH$_{3}$ and $\beta$-UH$_{3}$) have been studied using first-principles density functional theory. We find that inclusion of strong electronic…
A detailed theoretical study on the electronic structure and magnetic properties of half-metallic ferromagnet CrO$_2$ was carried out by means of relativistic full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital method within the generalized gradient…
In this paper, we systematically investigated the structural and magnetic properties of CrTe by combining particle swarm optimization algorithm and first-principles calculations. With the electronic correlation effect considered, we…
The recent discovery of ambient-pressure superconductivity in thin-film bilayer nickelates opens new possibilities for investigating electronic structures in this new class of high-transition temperature $T_C$ superconductors. Here, we…
Orthorhombic GdFeO$_3$ has attracted considerable attention in recent years because its magnetic structure is similar to that in the well-known BiFeO$_3$ material. We investigate electronic structure, magnetism, and optical properties of…
Ca$_{3}$Ru$_{2}$O$_{7}$ is a fascinating material that displays physical properties governed by spin-orbit interactions and structural distortions, showing a wide range of remarkable electronic phenomena. Here, we present a…
The magnetic properties, electronic band structure and Fermi surfaces of the hexagonal Cr2GeC system have been studied by means of both generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and the +U corrected method (GGA+U). The effective U value has…
Recent trends of ab initio studies and progress in methodologies for electronic structure calculations of strongly correlated electron systems are discussed. The interest for developing efficient methods is motivated by recent discoveries…