Divalent Surface State on Metallic Samarium
- 20 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 40 (12) , 813-816
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.40.813
Abstract
It is shown that the first atomic layer of trivalent metallic samarium has a large divalent component. The valence transition is attributed to a narrowing of the band which populates the low-lying state.
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