Ab Initio Typical Medium Theory Of Substitutional Disorder

By merging single-site typical medium theory with density-functional theory, we introduce a self-consistent framework for electronic-structure calculations of materials with substitutional disorder which takes into account Anderson localization. The scheme and details of the implementation are presented and applied to the hypothetical alloy LicBe1-c, and the results are compared with those obtained with the coherent potential approximation. Furthermore, we demonstrate that Anderson localization suppresses ferromagnetic order for a very low concentration of (i) carbon impurities substituting oxygen in MgO1-cCc and (ii) manganese impurities substituting magnesium in Mg1-cMncO for the low-spin magnetic configuration.