The Physics of the Hume-Rothery Electron Concentration Rule
@inproceedings{Mizutani2017ThePO,
title={The Physics of the Hume-Rothery Electron Concentration Rule},
author={Uichiro Mizutani and Hirokazu Sato},
year={2017}
}For a long time we have shared the belief that the physics of the Hume-Rothery electron concentration rule can be deepened only through thorough investigation of the interference phenomenon of itinerant electrons with a particular set of lattice planes, regardless of whether d-states are involved near the Fermi level or not. For this purpose, we have developed the FLAPW-Fourier theory (Full potential Linearized Augmented Plane Wave), which is capable of determining the square of the Fermi…
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