Electronic correlations in vanadium revealed by electron-positron annihilation measurements

Abstract

The electronic structure of vanadium measured by angular correlation of electron-positron annihilation radiation (ACAR) is compared with the predictions of the combined density functional and dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). Reconstructing the momentum density from five two-dimensional projections we were able to determine the full Fermi surface and found excellent agreement with the DMFT calculations. In particular, we show that the local, dynamic self-energy corrections contribute to the anisotropy of the momentum density and need to be included to explain the experimental results.