Further calculations incorporating the spin-orbit interactions into the electronic structure of dilute transitional impurity systems

Abstract

In previous work a new theoretical approach to the electronic structure of dilute transitional impurity systems has been formulated which includes the effects of both the crystal-field and spin-orbit interactions. When applied to the case of dilute AgPt alloys this approach gave rise to a platinum virtual bound state (VBS) resonance which was split into a triplet. This splitting was shown to be consistent with the accepted value for the spin-orbit parameter of platinum and with the available empirical data. It is the purpose of this paper to report on further calculations employing this new formalism and to compare the resulting theoretical predictions with experiment.