X-ray photoemission spectrum, electronic structure, and magnetism of UCuSi
arXiv:2503.20386 · doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2011.04.026
Abstract
The room temperature X-ray photoemission spectrum of the ferromagnetic compound UCuSi (T = 100 K) was measured using an Al K source. Related theoretical spectra were computed from densities of electronic states obtained in the local density approximation (LDA), the generalized gradient approximation (GGA), and using the GGA+U method. The calculated spectrum is in a good agreement with the experimental one. The spin polarized calculations based on the GGA+U approach as well as GGA/LSDA with orbital polarization (OP) corrections taken into account provide values of the total magnetic moment in reasonable agreement with the experimental values ranging between 1.6 and 2.0 /U atom.