A first principles calculation of the KLV Auger profiles of simple metals

The authors model the local electronic structure around a core-ionized site in a simple metal self-consistently using an embedding technique. They consider the local densities of states of Na, Mg and Al and calculate from first principles KLV Auger profiles. The success of this approach is assessed by comparison with experiment and with approximations which may be used to simplify the calculation. The agreement with experiment is on the whole good although some discrepancy arises for the case of KL2,3V lineshapes.