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We report first-principles calculations of the superconducting properties of $\beta$--Bi$_2$Pd within the fully anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg formalism. We find a single anisotropic superconducting gap of $s$--wave symmetry which varies in…
Energy band structures are calculated for the new superconductor MgB$_2$ and the related compounds by using the LDA and an FLAPW method. It is found that the strong three dimensional network in low-lying $\pi$ bands brings about two…
While many photoemission studies have dealt with both the bulk band structure and various surface states and resonances, the unoccupied electronic structure above the Fermi level of the Bi(111) surface has not yet been measured directly…
The recently reported nickel carbide superconductor, body centered tetragonal $I4/mmm$ Th$_2$NiC$_2$ with T$_c$ = 8.5 K increasing to 11.2 K upon alloying Th with Sc, is found to have very fine structure in its electronic spectrum,…
First-principles calculations of the electronic structure of members of the $R$NiC$_2$ series are presented, and their Fermi surfaces investigated for nesting propensities which might be linked to the charge-density waves exhibited by…
Electronic structures of orthorhombic ternary nickel silicides: superconducting Lu2Ni3Si5 and its non-superconducting counterpart, Y2Ni3Si5, have been calculated employing the fully-relativistic and full-potential local-orbital method…
By employing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy combined with first-principles calculations, we performed a systematic investigation on the electronic structure of LaBi, which exhibits extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR), and is…
Motivated by the recent discovery of a new family of Chromium based superconductors, we consider a two-band model, where a band of electrons dispersing only in one direction interacts with a band of electrons dispersing in all three…
Properties of strongly correlated two-dimensional (2D) electron systems in solids are studied on the assumption that these systems undergo a phase transition, called fermion condensation, whose characteristic feature is flattening of the…
Here we report the electronic structure of FeS, a recently identified iron-based superconductor. Our high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies show two hole-like ($\alpha$ and $\beta$) and two electron-like ($\eta$…
We fabricated spin-polarized surface electronic states with tunable Fermi level from semiconductor to low-dimensional metal in the Bi/GaSb(110)-(2$\times$1) surface using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) and spin-resolved…
The electronic band structures of the LaOFeP superconductor have been calculated theoretically by the first principles method and measured experimentally by electron energy loss spectroscopy. The calculations indicate that the Fe atom in…
We present a comparison of electronic structure of MgB2 and TaB2, the two new superconductors, as well as VB2, calculated using full-potential, density- functional-based methods in P6/mmm crystal structure. Our results, described in terms…
The recently discovered layered BiS2-based superconductors have attracted a great deal of interest due to their structural similarity to cuprate and iron-pnictide superconductors. We have performed Raman scattering measurements on two…
We performed an optical spectroscopy measurement on single crystals of $\mathrm{Ba_2Ti_2Fe_2As_4O}$, which is a newly discovered superconductor showing a coexistence of superconductivity and density wave order. The study reveals a spectral…
We report a first-principles density-functional calculation of the electronic structure and properties of the recently discovered superconducting beta-pyrochlore oxide KOs_2O_6. We find that the electronic structure near the Fermi energy…
We have successfully synthesized a new BiS2-based superconductor NdOBiS2 with F-doping. This compound is composed of superconducting BiS2 layers and blocking NdO layers, which indicates that the BiS2 layer is the one of the common…
Based on density functional calculations, the relationship between magnetism or superconductivity and electronic states around Fermi level were derived, and the location of the Fermi level in nonmagnetic "form" of Laves-phase compounds is…
The reason for the appearance of two distinct bands in the photoemission of the single CuO$_2$ plane Bi$_2$Sr$_{2-x}$La$_x$CuO$_{6+\delta}$ near the Fermi level is discussed on the basis of the self-consistent solution of the…
Motivated by the recently reported high-temperature superconductivity in the bilayer La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ (LNO) under pressure, here we comprehensively study this system using {\it ab initio} techniques. The Ni $3d$ orbitals have a large…