Structural stability and specific-heat coefficient of Yb

✍ Scribed by N Tugluoglu; M Peder; R.H Mutlu

• Book ID: 104337584
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 259
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9601
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9601(99)00411-9

✦ Synopsis

The linear muffin-tin-orbital method within the atomic-sphere approximation is used to calculate the structural energy differences and specific-heat coefficient of ytterbium metal. It has been shown that while nonlocal exchange corrections to the local-density approximation play almost no role for the structural energy differences, specific-heat coefficient values are correctly predicted only when these contributions are taken into account.