Self-consistent calculations of the energy bandstructure of LaB 6 , which has attracted interest as an electron beam source, are carried out using the usual nonrelativistic, symmetrized APW method. A one-electron potential is constructed on the basis of the X alpha method. The calculation is repeated for two special values of the exchange parameter, i.e. alpha =1.0 and 2/3. The two calculated bandstructures do not differ significantly in their essential features. They are characterized by wide B sp bands and La sd bands. The La d bands appear near the Fermi energy, E F , and a strong hybridization of the La d and B sp bands occurs. The strong hybridization causes a large wavevector dependence of the d bands, and E F cuts one such d band. These results account well for various small effective masses observed in LaB 6 . The calculated density of states for the valence bands agrees well with a recent X-ray photoemission measurement.
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Hasegawa et al. (1977) studied this question.