Actinide elements produce a plethora of interesting physical behaviors due to the 5 f states.
This review compiles and analyzes progress in the understanding of the electronic and …

Research on actinide materials, both basic and applied, has been greatly advanced by the
general techniques available from high-intensity photon beams from x-ray synchrotron …

The aim of this book is to review recent achievements in thetheoretical investigations of the
electronic structure, optical, magneto-optical (MO), and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism …

In the novel stoichiometric iron-based material RbEuFe 4 As 4, superconductivity coexists
with a peculiar long-range magnetic order of Eu 4f states. Using angle-resolved …

Electronic structures of the quantum critical superconductor β-YbAlB 4 and its polymorph α-
YbAlB 4 are investigated by using bulk-sensitive hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy …

Realization of stable spin states in surface-supported magnetic molecules is crucial for their
applications in molecular spintronics, memory storage or quantum information processing. In …

The electronic structure and optical spectra of SmB 6 and YbB 12 are investigated
theoretically from first principles, using the fully relativistic Dirac LMTO band structure …

Recent renewed interest in the mixed valent insulator SmB6 comes from topological theory
predictions and surface transport measurements of possible in-gap surface states whose …

The valence shell electron configurations within a few electron volts above the Fermi level in
cerium, ytterbium, europium and samarium compounds were probed by resonant X-ray …

Typical Kondo insulators (KIs) can have a nontrivial Z 2 topology because the energy gap
opens at the Fermi energy (EF) by a hybridization between odd-and even-parity bands. SmB …