Electronic structure of Nd3Co11B4

The electronic structure of Nd3Co11B4 and corresponding x-ray photoemission spectra (XPS) are presented. The band structure is calculated by the spin-polarized tight binding linear muffin tin orbital (TB LMTO) method. The XPS valence bands are compared with the calculated electronic density of states. Nd3Co11B4 is ferromagnetic with a calculated total magnetic moment M = 16.10 μB fu-1 and the local magnetic moments on Nd and Co atoms are parallel.