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A.B. Shick, S. Khmelevskyi, L. Havela:
"Electronic Structure, Photoemission and Superconductivity in PuCoGa₅";
Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. (2010 Materials Research Society), 1264 (2010), Z1203 - Z1208.

We study theoretically the electronic structure and photoemission spectra of PuCoGa5 making use of the LDA+Hubbard I approximation implemented in the full-potential LAPW basis, including self-consistency over the charge density. The calculations show relative reduction of the f-states spectral weight at the Fermi energy. There is fairly good agreement between calculated photoemission spectra and experimental results. We demonstrate that an account of Pu f-electron Coulomb correlations does not modify significantly the Fermi surface topologies but leads to substantial reduction of the f-character for the electronic states at the Fermi energy. These findings can be important for the theory of superconductivity in PuCoGa5 and related compounds.