ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE AND MAGNETOOPTICAL PROPERTIES OF CESB AND GD

The electronic structure of gadolinium metal and CeSb have been calcul ated using a density functional method which explicitly includes the C oulomb parameter U for the 4f-electrons. The calculated density of sta tes, total energies, Fermi surface, and magneto-optical properties are in better agreement with experiment than those obtained with the stan dard local density technique.