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Electronic Structure of Lanthanum Hydrides with Switchable Optical Properties

K. K. Ng, F. C. Zhang, V. I. Anisimov, T. M. Rice

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9609084

Abstract

Recent dramatic changes in the optical properties of LaH2+x and YH2+x films discovered by Huiberts et al. suggest their electronic structure is described best by a local model. Electron correlation is important in H- -centers and in explaining the transparent insulating behavior of LaH3. The metal-insulator transition at x 0.8 takes place in a band of highly localized states centered on the H-vacancies in the LaH3 structure.

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