Band Structure, Fermi Surface, and Knight Shift of Indium Metal
- 15 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 167 (3), 660-669
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.167.660
Abstract
The orthogonalized-plane-wave (OPW) method has been applied to calculate the energy levels at several symmetry points in the Brillouin zone in indium metal. The calculated energy values were utilized to obtain parameters for the pseudopotential interpolation scheme. Using these parameters, a number of dimensions of the second- and third-zone Fermi surface were calculated and compared with experimental results from de Haas-van Alphen and magnetoacoustic measurements. The calculated Fermi surface qualitatively resembled that expected from the nearly-free-electron approximation. There were, however, differences in detail which brought the theoretical results into better agreement with experiment. The effect of spin-orbit interaction on the band structure was found to be small. The conduction-electron wave functions were calculated at a number of points on the Fermi surface using the OPW method. These wave functions were used to calculate the isotropic Knight shift, which was found to be 0.81%, in good agreement with experiment.Keywords
This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
- Direct and Core-Polarization Contributions to the Knight Shift in Metallic AluminumPhysical Review B, 1966
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Indium Metal at 4.2°KPhysical Review B, 1966
- High-Frequency Magnetoacoustic Measurements in Indium and LeadPhysical Review B, 1963
- Orbital Paramagnetism and the Knight Shift of D-Band SuperconductorsPhysical Review Letters, 1962
- Fermi Surface of Indium from Magnetoacoustic MeasurementsPhysical Review B, 1962
- Effect of Spin-Orbit Splitting on the Fermi Surfaces of the Hexagonal-Close-Packed MetalsPhysical Review Letters, 1960
- Band Structure of AluminumPhysical Review B, 1960
- Contribution of Core Polarization to the Atomic Hyperfine Structure and Knight Shift of Li and NaProceedings of the Physical Society, 1959
- Electronic Structure of the Diamond CrystalPhysical Review B, 1952
- Nuclear magnetic relaxation and resonnance line shift in metalsPhysica, 1950