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Influence of spin-orbit coupling on chemical bonding

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arxiv 2204.02751 v1 pith:CUT6AHOF submitted 2022-04-06 cond-mat.mtrl-sci physics.chem-ph

Influence of spin-orbit coupling on chemical bonding

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keywords spin-orbitbondingchemicalangularcouplingelementalinfluenceinteraction
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The influence of spin-orbit interaction on chemical bonds in elemental solids and homonuclear dimers is analyzed by means of density-functional-theory calculations. Employing highly precise all-electron full-potential methodology, our results represent benchmark quality. Comparison of the scalar- and fully-relativistic approaches for elemental solids shows that the spin-orbit interaction may contract or expand the volume of the considered material. The largest variation of the volume is obtained for Au, Tl, I, Bi, Po and Hg, exhibiting changes between 1.0--7.6\%. Using the tight-binding model, we show for diatomic molecules that the nature of this effect lies in the angular rearrangement of bonding and antibonding orbitals introduced by spin-orbit coupling. Such an angular rearrangement appears in partially filled $p$- or $d$-orbitals in heavy elements. Finally, we discuss the impact of the relativistic effects on the chemical bonding in single-layer iodides and transition metal dichalcogenides

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