Study on Band Structure of YbB 6 and Analysis of Its Optical Conductivity Spectrum

Abstract

The electronic structure of YbB 6 crystal was studied by means of density functional (GGA + U) method. The calculations were performed by FLAPW method. The high accurate band structure was achieved. The correlation between the feature of the band structure and the Yb-B6 bonding in YbB 6 was analyzed. On this basis, some optical constants of YbB 6 such as reflectivity, dielectric function, optical conductivity, and energy-loss function were calculated. The results are in good agreement with the experiments. The real part of the optical conductivity spectrum and the energy-loss function spectrum were analyzed in detail. The assignments of the spectra were carried out to correlate the spectral peaks with the interband electronic transitions, which justify the reasonable part of previous empirical assignments and renew the missed or incorrect ones.