Abstract
Abstract For sufficiently strong scattering by randomly-distributed imperfections the integrated intensity of a wave initiated at some starting point becomes localized within some finite distance. We discuss how this Anderson localization can be self-induced, with possible enhancement by magnetic ordering, in light actinide systems. This mechnnism provides an ab initio based prediction, in close agreement with experiment, of the variation of the magnetic ordering temperatures and low-temperature ordered moments in a number of uranium compounds which are driven by alloying through B phase transition from non-magnetic behaviour to strong magnetic ordering. This mechanism also explains the phase transition to the δ face-centred-cubic (fcc) structure at 592 K in elemental plutonium, which has a low-temperature α monoclinic structure, and the substantial depression of melting temperature of plutonium and neptunium with respect to neighbowing elements. Both the strongly magnetically-ordered uranium systems and ...
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