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9, Structure, J.: Astronomy, University
9, Structure, J.: Astronomy, University
9, Structure, J.: Astronomy, University
Band structure, cohesive energy, optical conductivity, and Compton profile of lithium
%. Y. Ching and J. Callaway
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
(Received 4 March 1974)
A self-consistent calculation of energy bands in lithium has been performed using the
linear-combination-of-atomic-orbitals (KAO) method. The basis set consisted of nine s-type, six p-type,
and three d-type Gaussian orbitals. Exchange was included according to the Xa method with a=2/3.
Results are presented for the band structure, Fermi-surface properties, cohesive energy, and the
Compton pro61e. The interband contribution to the optical conductivity was calculated including the k
variation of the momentum matrix elements. The distortions of the Fermi surface from spherical
symmetry are less than 4%. The optical and thermal effective-mass ratios are 1.48 and 1.53,
respectively. The onset of direct interband transitions is predicted to occur at 3.28 eV, The calculated
cohesive energy is 0.124 Ry.
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5116 W. Y. CHING AND J. CALLAWAY
TABLE I. Orbital exponents for the Gaussian basis tensive tests in which the overlap matrix was diag-
set. onalized at many points in the Brillouin zone indi-
cated that none of the overlap eigenvalues was
s type P type d type
small enough to cause numerical instability. The
10 000. 0 100. 0 2. 50 resulting Hamiltonian and overlap matrices are of
800. 0 11.0 0. 36 dimension 42' 42 at a general point of the Brillouin
90. 0 2. 5 0. 14 zone. The lattice constant was taken to be
16. 0 0. 7
4. 0 0. 29 6. 597@0.
1.4 0. 15 The self-consistency calculation followed the
0. 46 procedures described in Refs. 22 and 25. Approxi-
0. 24 mately twenty iterations were required to achieve
0. 13 self -consistency. The iterative process stopped
when the (110) Fourier coefficient of the Coulomb
potential did not change by more than 10 ~ Ry.
Changes in the lowest 100 rotationally independent
Fourier coefficients of the crystal potential were
considered. The charge density was sampled at
(in which l; is the relevant angular momentum and 140 points in ~8 of the Brillouin zone in the final
g, is the orbital exponent) and angular functions stages of the iterative process. The calculations
which are real linear combinations of spherical were done using double precision arithmetic on an
harmonics. Our basis includes nine s-type, six IBM 360-65.
p-type, and three d-type functions. The exponents The energy bands resulting from these calcula-
are listed in Table I. The small exponents re- tions are shown along some directions of symmetry
quired in atomic calculations are not required to in Fig. 1. In order to facilitate comparison of our
construct solid-state wave functions. The present results with those of other workers, a table of en-
basis can be compared to the nine s, seven p func- ergy levels relative to the lowest I', state is given
tions contracted to three independent s and three in Table Q. Results obtained by Dagens and Per-
independent p functions employed in Ref. 17. Ex- rot 0 using the same exchange potential are also
1.8
1.6
4
1.
1.2
0
1.
K
Np
0.8 N'e
FIG. 1. Band structure of
C5 lithium in several symmetry
0.6 directions.
X
LLI
0.4
0.2
0.0
-0.2
-0 4-
r N P r P H N
(OOO) (440) (444) (soo) (OOO) (444) (8oo) (44o)
WAV E VECTQR
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TABLE II. Energies of selected states (in Ry). The rections resulting from deviations of the electron
results quoted from Ref. 20 pertain to the K-S exchange and positron wave function from plane waves.
s
potential.
Recently, de Haas-van Alphen oscillations have
2ak/7t State E(k) (present) Ref. 20 been observed in a sample of lithium dispersed in
paraffin wax. ' These observations do not yield pre-
(o, o, o) r, 0. 00000 0. 000 00 cise dimensions of the Fermi surface, but do show
(o, o, o) r„ 1.274 04 1.275 54 that the distortion from spherical form is small.
(1, 0, 0) b, i 0. 042 10 0. 042 15
(1, 1, 0) Zi 0. 08382 0. 083 85 We have calculated the optical and thermal effec-
(1, 1, 1) 0. 125 99 0. 126 00 tive masses according to
(2, o, o) 0. 17074 0. 171 22
(2, 1, o)
(2, 1, 1)
0. 208 39
0. 25066
0. 208 53
0. 25063
4' =6 — g'kV'E k (5)
(2, 2, o) N'1 O. 271 58 0. 270 07
and
(2, 2, o) Ni 0. 476 48 0. 483 70
(2, 2, o) 0. 954 96 0. 982 12 m th 1 " dS~
(6)
(2, 2, o) N4' 1.117 57 1. 085 09 m 2mkr I V&E(k) I
(2, 2, 2) P4 0. 494 19 O. 492 87 The integration of (5) was carried out using an em-
(2, 2, 2) Pi 0. 812 85 0. 85464 pirical fit to E(k) using a Kubic harmonic expansion
(4, o, o) H&5 0. 615 01 0. 643 85
0. 85361 0. 80742 through sixth order as in Ref. 10. Equation (6) was
(4, o, o) H)2
(4, o, o) Hi 1.21419 1.203 38 integrated numerically over the Fermi surface us-
ing an adaption of the linear analytic (Gilat-Rauben-
heimer) method used to compute the density of
given. The calculation performed by these authors states. We find m, /m =1.48 and m~h/m=1. 53.
seems to differ from ours significantly only in that These results agree well with values of 1.47 and
it was performed within the "muffin-tin approxi- 1. 50 calculated by Perdew and Vosko. ' Our re-
mation using the augmented-plane-wave (APW)
sults for these and other related parameters are
method. "
There is evidently excellent agreement summarized in Table IV, which also contains ex-
for states in the lowest band, but some of the ex- perimental and some other theoretical results.
cited states disagree by amounts up to 0. 05 Ry. Comparison of the calculated and measured ther-
mal effective mass indicates a mass enhancement
The origin of these discrepancies is not known, but
of 44/p.
may be related to the muffin-tin approximation.
IV. OPTICAL CONDUCTIVITY
III. FERMI SURFACE
The density of states was calculated from the The real part of the frequency-dependent optical
conductivity contains an i.nterband cont;ribution
energy levels according to Gilat-Raubenheimer
which is, for v &0,
method. The Fermi energy was determined and
the Fermi surface was constructed. The width of
the occupied portion of the band (Er —Er ) is 0. 254 Re[o((u)] =, ~Z,
2ve' " d'k
Other
Present theoretical Experimental
Parameter results results values
of the gradient operator between Gaussian orbitals heimer method based on 1785 points in 4+8 of the
on different sites can be obtained analytically. 33 Brillouin zone. We have also computed the conduc-
The wave-vector dependence of the matrix ele- tivity with the inclusion of a phenomenological con-
ments is significant. The integration over the Bril- stant relaxation time v. In this case, the complex
louin zone was performed by the Gilat-Rauben- conductivity is
f Re[o(m)]d&u=vNe /2m .
I2.0 I I I
I
IO. O- I
& 40- +\
g
=9. 86x10"' sec. The experimental results of o
0 I.O 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 S.O 9.0 IO. O
ENERGY ( eV )
by Hodgson.
The experimental observations do not extend to
FIG. 2. Optical conductivity of lithium. The solid
high enough energies to determine whether there is curve is obtained from Eq. (7), the dashed curve is ob-
agreement with theory in regard to the general tained from Eq. (8) including a relaxation time v=9. 68
shape of the interband conductivity. The measure- x 10 4 sec. The crosses and triangles are the result of
ments do appear to indicate that the onset of inter- Ref. 34 for temperatures of 140 and 298'K, respectively.
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TABLE V. Total energy of lithium. Quantities refer A quantity related to the low-energy (infrared)
to Eq. (10). All energies are in rydbergs. optical properties is the effective ionic polarizabil-
—6. 970 ity. ~' This quantity, denoted e„,
enters the expres-
Sum of one electron energies
sion for the real part of the dielectric function sc
2 Coulomb energy of electrons 8. 577
&exchange energy —1. 036 for photon energies much smaller than the thresh-
Total energy of solid —14. 511 old for'interband transitions. If this condition is
Total energy of free atom —14. 387 s", .tisfied, and v» 1/7', where 7 is the "Drude" re-
Cohesive energy (calc. ) 0. 124 laxation time,
Cohesive energy (expt. ) (Ref. 39) 0. 122
K = 1 + K~ —QPp/QP
2
(10)
in which u~ is the plasma frequency,
be expected to be displaced from the calculated
direct gap of 3. 28 eV to perhaps -3. 00 eV
oP~= 4wNe /m f, .
[E(N&) —Er minus phonon energy] which re-
mains larger than the observed value (-2. 4
The polarizability e„ is given by
eV at 125 'K). Our results for the gap at N are in 'd'k
good agreement with many other theoretical calcu-
8ve
m'& p„, ~ (2v)' f' (k)[1 f"(k)] I (fk p( sk)
I
[(u„,(k)]'
I
(14)
in which p(r) is the electron charge density, and allowing for the spin polarization which exists in
V, (r) is the exchange potential the atom. Our calculated free-atom energy is low-
er than that obtained if spin polarization is neglected
V, (r) = —2e (3p/8a) (15)
by approximately 0. 04 Ry.
The summation in the first term includes occupied The resulting cohesive energy is in excellent
states only. The value obtained in this way for agreement with the experimental value given by
metallic lithium (at the observed lattice constant Gschneider. ~~ It also agrees quite well with that
only) can be compared with simila, r results for the obtained by Averill with the same exchange approx-
free lithium atom. Our results for-the terms in imation but using the APW method and a muffin-tin
Eq. (14) are presented in Table V. The uncertain- potential. However, our calculated solid-state
ty in the calculated solid-state total energy is be- total energy is lower than that obtained by Averill
lieved to be a 0. 01 Ry. The energy quoted for the by about 0. 04 Ry, compensating for the lower total
free lithium atom was obtained in a separate cal- energy of the free atom. In addition, it has to be
culation using same exchange potential (a = ), but—', remembered that the Xn approximation does not
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I.80
1 I i; I I I I I
ing event has occurred, and 5& denote the energy
transferred to the electron. In the impulse approx-
imation it canbe shown that the cross section for scat-
l. 50—
tering into a fixed directon of k is proportional to4~
I. 20—
~a(q}= s d'p p(p}6(q-p &), (16)
(2v)
(
0.90—
in which p(p} is the momentum distribution function
0.60
0 is the volume of the unit cell, R=R/) R [, and
q=mcu/f &
'
——, & .
/ / f
0.30
A straightforward procedure exists for evaluation
I I I I I I I I I I I I I
of Jg(q) using wave functions expressed as combina-
0 0.20 040 0.60 0.80 I.OO 1. 20 I.40 tions of Gaussian orbitals. The details have been
Q VALUE IN THREE PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS described previously. Our results for Jg(q} are
FIG. 3. Compton profile of lithium. The solid line is shown for three different directions in Fig. 3.
the core (1s) contribution. The other curves include the Experimental results due to Phillips and gneiss
band electrons, and pertain to the following directions: and Eisenberger eg gl'. are shown for compari-
dash-dot, [111]direction; short dashes, [100] direction; son. It is apparent that the theoretical values of
longer dashes, [110] direction. The experimental points J(q) are too large for small q and too small for
are as follows: x, Ref. 43, [111] direction; ~, Ref. 43, large q. This discrepancy can reasonably be at-
[100] direction; 4, Ref. 43, [110] direction; O, Ref.
tributed to the effects of electron interactions,
,
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