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To summarize we have reproduced the intricate structural properties of the Fe-Co, Fe-Ni and the Fe-Cu alloys by means of LMTO-ASA-CPA theory. We conclude that the phase diagram of especially the Fe-Ni alloys is heavily influenced by short range order effects. The general trend of a bcc-fcc phase transition at lower Fe concentrations is in accordance with simple band Ailing effects from canonical band theory. Due to this the structural stability of the Fe-Co alloys may be understood from VGA and canonical band calculations, since the common band model is appropriate below the Fermi energy for this system. However, for the Fe-Ni and the Fe-Cu system this simple picture breaks down. 

We have carried out impurity calculations for a zinc atom embedded in a copper matrix. We first perform self consistent band theory calculations on pure Cu and Zn on fee lattices with the lattice constant of pure Cu, 6.76 Bohr radii. This yields Fermi energies, self consistent potentials, scattering matrices, and wave functions for both metals. The Green s function for a system with a Zn atom embedded in a Cu matrix... 

Generally, all band theoretical calculations of momentum densities are based on the local-density approximation (LDA) [1] of density functional theory (DFT) [2], The LDA-based band theory can explain qualitatively the characteristics of overall shape and fine structures of the observed Compton profiles (CPs). However, the LDA calculation yields CPs which are higher than the experimental CPs at small momenta and lower at large momenta. Furthermore, the LDA computation always produces more pronounced fine structures which originate in the Fermi surface geometry and higher momentum components than those found in the experiments [3-5]. 

In order to explain the changing optical properties of AIROFs several models were proposed. The UPS investigations of the valence band of the emersed film support band theory models by Gottesfeld [94] and by Mozota and Conway [79, 88]. The assumption of nonstoichiometry and electron hopping in the model proposed by Burke et al. [87] is not necessary. Recent electroreflectance measurements on anodic iridium oxide films performed by Gutierrez et al. [95] showed a shift of optical absorption bands to lower photon energies with increasing anodic electrode potentials, which is probably due to a shift of the Fermi level with respect to the t2g band [67]. 

According to band theory, the electrons inside a metal populate the valence band up to the highest occupied molecular orbital, which is called the Fermi level. The potential applied to a metallic electrode governs the energy of its electrons according to Figure 5. 

According to the Pauli exclusion principle, the conduction electrons occupy the states from the bottom of the conduction band up to an energy level where the metal becomes neutral. This highest energy level occupied by an electron is the Fermi level, /.. In the Sommerfeld theory of metals, a natural reference point of the energy level is the bottom of the conduction band. The Fermi level with respect to that reference point is... 

Band theory is a one-electron, independent particle theory, which assumes that the electrons are distributed amongst a set of available stationary states following the Fermi-Dirac statistics. The states are given by solutions of the Schrodinger equation... 

The above simple picture of solids is not universally true because we have a class of crystalline solids, known as Mott insulators, whose electronic properties radically contradict the elementary band theory. Typical examples of Mott insulators are MnO, CoO and NiO, possessing the rocksalt structure. Here the only states in the vicinity of the Fermi level would be the 3d states. The cation d orbitals in the rocksalt structure would be split into t g and eg sets by the octahedral crystal field of the anions. In the transition-metal monoxides, TiO-NiO (3d -3d% the d levels would be partly filled and hence the simple band theory predicts them to be metallic. The prediction is true in TiO... 

Many ferromagnets are metals or metallic alloys with delocalized bands and require specialized models that explain the spontaneous magnetization below Tc or the paramagnetic susceptibility for T > Tc. The Stoner-Wohlfarth model,6 for example, explains these observed magnetic parameters of d metals as by a formation of excess spin density as a function of energy reduction due to electron spin correlation and dependent on the density of states at the Fermi level. However, a unified model that combines explanations for both electron spin correlations and electron transport properties as predicted by band theory is still lacking today. 

CO. For that matter, in regards to predicting the type of electrical behavior, one has to be careful not to place excessive credence on actual electronic structure calculations that invoke the independent electron approximation. One-electron band theory predicts metallic behavior in all of the transition metal monoxides, although it is only observed in the case of TiO The other oxides, NiO, CoO, MnO, FeO, and VO, are aU insulating, despite the fact that the Fermi level falls in a partially hUed band. In the insulating phases, the Coulomb interaction energy is over 4 eV whereas the bandwidths have been found to be approximately 3 eV, that is, U > W. 

A metallic state predicted by one-electron band theory is not stable when its Fermi surface is nested, and becomes susceptible to a metal-to-insulator transition under a suitable perturbation. We now examine the nature of the nonmetallic states that are derived from a normal metallic state upon mixing its occupied and unoccupied band levels. For simplicity, consider the 2D representation of the nested Fermi surface shown in (100), where the vector q is one of many possible nesting vectors. The occupied and unoccupied wave vectors are denoted by k and k, respectively. Each unit cell will be assumed to contain one AO x Suppose we choose the k and k values to satisfy the relationship... 

Fig. 22. L3 palladium edge of Pd metal (dotted line) compared with one-electron band theory (solid line) taking account of the partial (1 = 2) local density of states, of the inelastic mean free path and of the core-hole lifetime. The dashed line shows the total density of states of palladium metal, which is quite different from the absorption spectrum. The zero of the energy scale is fixed at the Fermi energy...

The next advance came from the application of Fermi-Dirac statistics to the electrons in metals, which led to the band theory of a quasi-continu-ous series of energy levels, and to the concept of Brillouin zones, which is of special value for alloys. This sets the stage for a detailed study of the electronic factor in catalysis on metals. 

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