2023/07/12 by Shivani Bhardwaj, Bhardwaj, Shivani, Sudhir K. Pandey +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Nuclear Materials and Properties #Rare-earth and actinide compounds #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Thermodynamic and Structural Properties of Metals and Alloys
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.06291
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The simultaneous influence of electronic correlations and magnetic ordering on the theoretical estimation of phonons and related properties of Ni is investigated. The work includes a comparative DFT and DFT+U study, where on-site Coulomb interaction parameter for 3d electrons, U(Ufull)= 0.516 eV obatined from constarined random phase approximation (cRPA) calculations, is considered for DFT+U calculations. The analysis of phonon frequency estimates along high symmetric k-directions and sampled full-BZ (Brillouin zone) using Frozen phonon displacement method suggests the importance of both on-site Coulomb correlations and magnetism to account for the experimental frequencies. Further, prominent role of both the aspects is observed in the derived thermodynamic properties - Free-energy, specific heat & entropy, within quasi-harmonic approximation (QHA) specially at high temperatures. The temperature dependent evaluation of thermal expansion coefficient(α) and phonon density of states is performed together with the equilibrium elastic constants. The results obtained for Ni, suggest the significance of electronic energy correction due to both on-site Coulomb correlations and magnetic phase incorporation, to account for realistic description of experimental findings. This study realizes the inevitable role of correlation effects in studying the phononic properties of a correlated transition metal, hence directing a way to explore various other correlated electron systems for their lattice dynamics.