# Re: [Wien] f orbital under an external magnetic field

Dear Bin Shao,


I never tried that one, and I am admittedly unsure about what the 'eigenvalues at Gamma point of the Er' actually contain (density, multiplicity,...). So this will be a comment not a solution to your problem. My first suspect for something to go wrong would be this 'simple estimate'. Do you estimate the thing you want to estimate?

From the info you give I take it you estimated

\mu(Er) * \mu_B * 45 T / e \approx 10 meV


as the energy per Er in a field of 45 T, where \mu(Er) is the Er moment from your scf? Since you study Er-doping you presumably have one Er per unit cell? In a rigid band model one would expect a difference of 1 \mu_B * 45 T between up and down channel at all k-points. The shift shows in the field induced magnetic moment, in a metal reshuffling electrons at the Fermi surface. You don't have rigid bands and you have SO mixing the spin channels, so why does one expect the 10 meV to show up at the Gamma point of Er?

I hope this helps a little,

Martin Pieper

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Am 06.08.2015 04:55, schrieb Bin Shao:

Dear all,

I made calculations of a compound with Er^3+(4f^11 5d^0 6s^0, ground
state S=3/2, L=6, J=15/2) doping under an external magnetic field. I
got the corresponding occupation of Er^3+ with 7 electrons in majority
spin and 4 electrons in minority spin. With soc including, I got
eigenvalues at Gamma point of the Er^3+ under the magnetic field from
4 Tesla to 45 Tesla. However, the picture indicates that the
eigenvalues with the different magnetic fields almost keep the same as
that of 4 T. Why? According to a simple estimation, the magnetic field
of 45 T will introduce an energy shift about 10 meV, that would
definitely be seen from the figure.

Best regards,

Bin

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