First-Principles Study of the Fermi Surface Topology of CeCu${}_2$Si${}_2$

Abstract

Since the discovery of heavy-fermion superconductivity in CeCu${}_2$Si${}_2$, the material has attracted great interest particularly with regard to the nature of the superconducting pairing and its mechanism. Consequently, it is essential to better understand the electronic Fermi surface topology and its role in strong antiferromagnetic fluctuations. The standard density functional theory method is insufficient to model the interplay of strong onsite Coulomb repulsion in localized 4{\it f}-electrons and their hybridization with itinerant ligand-orbital electrons. We have performed electronic ground state calculations on CeCu${}_2$Si${}_2$ using the Gutzwiller wavefunction approximation. The Gutzwiller approximation captures the quasiparticle band renormalization from the strong onsite Coulomb repulsion. We have performed an analysis of this effect on the electronic structure and the Fermi surface topology by varying the interaction strength and taking into account the crystal-field splitting. Using the de Haas van Alphen effect, the extremal Fermi surface cross-sectional areas were calculated to quantify the effects of quasiparticle mass renormalization on the Fermi surface. Our results confirm two Fermi surface sheets corresponding to the heavy (488m${}_e$) and light (4.35m${}_e$) quasiparticles, which is in close agreement with experimental measurements as well as the renormalized band method.

arXiv comment10 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

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