Intermetallic compounds containing f-electron elements display a wealth of superconducting
phases, which are prime candidates for unconventional pairing with complex order …

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 …

accepted February 8, 2007; published May 10, 2007) Over the past five or so years, a family
of cerium-and plutonium-based superconductors that crystallize in the HoCoGa5 structure …

Synchrotron-radiation-based x-ray absorption, electron energy-loss spectroscopy in a
transmission electron microscope, multielectronic atomic spectral simulations, and improved …

Ligand field density functional theory calculations of the dioxides of thorium, uranium, and
plutonium have been combined with high-energy-resolution fluorescence detection …

The physical properties of the first In analog of the PuMGa 5 (M= Co, Rh) family of
superconductors, PuCoIn 5, are reported. With its unit cell volume being 28% larger than …

We review the intermediate coupling model for treating electronic correlations in the
cuprates. Spectral signatures of the intermediate coupling scenario are identified and used …

The d and f electrons in correlated metals are often neither fully localized around their host
nuclei nor fully itinerant. This localized/itinerant duality underlies the correlated electronic …

Superconductivity is due to an attractive interaction between electrons that, below a critical
temperature, drives them to form Cooper pairs and to condense into a ground state …