Multiplet effects in the electronic structure of intermediate-valence compounds

We present an implementation of the Hubbard-I approximation based on the exact solution of the atomic many-body problem incorporated in a full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital method of density-functional theory. Comparison between calculated and measured x-ray photoemission spectra reveal a good agreement for intermediate valence systems in open crystal structures such as YbInCu4, SmB6, and YbB12. Spectral features of the unoccupied states of SmB6 are predicted.