Transition metals hybridization matrix element

Within DFT quantum mechanics, first-principles GPT provides a fundamental basis for ab initio interatomic potentials in metals and alloys. In the GPT apphed to transition metals [49], a mixed basis of plane waves and localized d-state orbitals is used to self-consistently expand the electron density and total energy of the system in terms of weak sp pseudopotential, d-d tight-binding, and sp-d hybridization matrix elements, which in turn are all directly calculable from first principles. For a bulk transition metal, one obtains the real-space total-energy functional... 

Tlie bands have long been interpreted as LCAO d bands, crossed by and hybridized with a free-electron-like band (Saffren, 1960 Hodges and Ehrenreich, 1965 and Mueller, 1967). By including some eleven parameters (pseudopotential matrix elements, interatomic matrix elements, orthogonality corrections, and hybridization parameters), it is possible to reproduce the known bands very accurately. We shall also make an LCAO analysis of the bands but shall take advantage of recent theoretical developments to reduce the number of independent parameters to two for each metal, each of which can be obtained for any metal from the Solid State Table. These two parameters will also provide the basis for understanding a variety of properties of the transition metals. 

Extension of pseudopotential theory to the transition metals preceded the use of the Orbital Correction Method discussed in Appendix E, but transition-metal pseudopotentials are a special case of it. In this method, the stales are expanded as a linear combination of plane waves (or OPW s) plus a linear combination of atomic d states. If the potential in the metal were the same as in the atom, the atomic d states would be eigenstates in the metal and there would be no matrix elements of the Hamiltonian with other slates. However, the potential ix different by an amount we might write F(r), and there arc, correspondingly, matrix elements (k 1 // 1 r/> = hybridizing the d states with the frce-eleclron states. The full analysis (Harrison, 1969) shows that the correct perturbation differs from (5K by a constant. The hybridization potential is... 

For analysis of the transition metals themselves, the use of free-electron bands and LCAO d states is preferable. The analysis based upon transition-metal pseudopotential theory has shown that the interatomic matrix elements between d states, the hybridization between the free-electron and d bands, and the resulting effective mass for the free-electron bands can all be written in terms of the d-state radius r, and values for have been listed in the Solid State Table. 

Finally, it is of interest to relate the levels obtained in terms of this simple bonding unit of transition-metal d states and six oxygen hybrids to the bands we discussed earlier. Three of the d states have no a matrix elements with the hybrid. and we are dropping n matrix elements these three correspond to the triply degenerate state r 25 at the energy e. The other two d states are equally. sliiftcd... 

The electronic structure is reformulated in terms of free electrons and a d resonance in order to relate the band width Wj to the resonance width T, and is then reformulated again in terms of transition-metal pseudopotential theory, in which the hybridization between the free-electron states and the d state is treated in perturbation theory. The pseudopotential theory provides both a definition of the d-state radius and a derivation of all interatomic matrix elements and the free-electron effective mass in terms of it. Thus it provides all of the parameters for the LCAO theory, as well as a means of direct calculation of many properties, as was possible in the simple metals. ... 

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