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A semi-empirical formalism is presented for deriving interatomic potentials for materials such as caesium or cerium which exhibit volume collapse phase transitions. It is based on the Finnis-Sinclair second moment tight binding approach,…
The electronic structure, when restricted to the d-band approximation, is a computational model that is both efficient and useful for describing transition metals. In the absence of considering delocalized sp-states, this approximation…
We introduce a two-band Kondo-lattice model to describe ferromagnetic half-metals with local magnetic moments. In a model study, the electronic and magnetic properties are presented by temperature dependent magnetization curves,…
We study the possibility of ferromagnetism in metals. The metal is described by two hybridized bands one of which includes Hubbard correlation whereas the other is uncorrelated. We parametrize the ratio of the band widths and their centers…
Correlations derived through single-particle approximations of the many-body problem frequently result in erroneously inflated or diminished physical properties. In the context of transition metals, the impact of correlations can be…
The screened electron-electron interaction in a multi-band electron system is calculated within the random phase approximation and in the tight-binding representation. The obtained dielectric matrix contains, beside the usual site-site…
The Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition is investigated in a two-band Hubbard model within dynamical mean-field theory. To this end, we use a suitable extension of Wilson's numerical renormalization group for the solution of the…
We develop a gauge-independent perturbation theory for the grand potential of itinerant electrons in two-dimensional tight-binding models in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. At first order in the field, we recover the result…
The magnetic properties of transition-like metals are discussed within the single site approximation, which is a picture to take into account electron correlations. The metal is described by two hybridized bands one of which includes…
The Dual Boson approach to strongly correlated systems generally involves a dynamic (frequency-dependent) interaction in the auxiliary impurity model. In this work, we explore the consequences of forcing this interaction to be instantaneous…
Two-band superconductivity has become an important topic over the last ten years. Extensive experimental and theoretical studies started with MgB2 and are now focused on the iron-based and other new superconductors. In this review, I…
We study a two-band Hubbard model using the dynamical mean-field theory combined with the exact diagonalization method. At the electron density $n=2$, a transition from a band-insulator to a correlated semimetal occurs when the on-site…
}We present a formalism for extending the second moment tight-binding model, incorporating ferro- and anti-ferromagn etic interaction terms which are needed for the FeCr system. For antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic materials, an explicit…
An application of the tight binding approximation is presented for the description of electronic structure and interatomic force in magnetic iron, both pure and containing hydrogen impurities. We assess the simple canonical d-band…
Accurate modeling of transition metal-containing compounds is of great interest due to their wide-ranging and significant applications. These systems present several challenges from an electronic structure perspective, including significant…
We present strong numerical evidence for the band Kondo effect in the doped 2D Hubbard model by showing the systematic change of the density of states, imaginary part of the self-energy, effective magnetic moment and quasiparticle residue…
To understand the superconductivity in MgB2, several two-band models of superconductivity were proposed. In this paper, by using the relativistic fermion model, we clearize the effect of the lower band in the superconductivity.
The influence of correlation effects on the orbital moments for transition metals and their alloys is studied by first-principle relativistic Density Functional Theory in combination with the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. In contrast to the…
A new two-pole approximation, which allows to describe the transition from an insulating state to a metallic one at increase of bandwidth, and also the observable in some compounds transition from a metalic state to an insulating one with…
Experimental results on the metal-insulator transition and related phenomena in strongly interacting two-dimensional electron systems are discussed. Special attention is given to recent results for the strongly enhanced spin susceptibility,…