f-Electron contribution to bonding in protactinium compounds
Abstract
Following the preparation of single crystals of PaAs and the measurement of the lattice parameter, we have been able to study the trends in the lattice parameter across the monoarsenide and mononitride series. Self-consistent band structure calculations show that PaN and PaAs have about one f-electron and that they are paramagnetic - a result which, for PaAs, we have also found by experiment. Theoretical calculation of the lattice parameters agrees well with experiment and the f-contribution to the bonding is shown to the large.
- Publication:
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Physica B+C
- Pub Date:
- October 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0378-4363(80)90132-1
- Bibcode:
- 1980PhyBC.102...84B