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band
10) (11.7)
kEFS 0

where we include the k vectors for which X i 5 p. The number of k in

the Fermi volume is N/2 (the number of electrons per spin direction).
The Uf= 0 mixing amplitudes are

2211,
ao(k) = (11.8)
Ck-cf + d m '
Now let us consider the effect of switching on a large U f . If we wish
to discuss the case of fo-fl valence mixing only, we may let Uf + 00,
assuming that ~f lies within the c-band, or not far below. Replacing
t in terms of the atomic f states in (11.7), we can
the expansion of fko
easily convince ourselves that the uncorrelated hybridized-band Fermi
sea (FS) contains a substantial concentration of f 2 sites. However, the
f 2 configuration is energetically forbidden by U f + 00. Our first idea
might be to act with the Gutzwiller projector pf = nj
(1 - fi{?fi{$) on
IFS) [335,4271. However, we might suspect that the spatial redistribu-
tion of the f-electrons changes also the hybridization amplitudes, and
therefore a more flexible variational trial state is called for, in which i'f
acts on a freely adjustable hybridized band state [lo71

Here the a(k)are independent variational parameters. [Q) has the gen-
eral structure shown in (10.37), but we have to remember that here we
have to do with a two-band model, and the projector Pf acts only on
one of the fermion species. We also note the great formal similarity of
(11.9) to the Gutzwiller-projected SDW state15 (10.57).
Expanding fkot in terms of the atomic f states in (11.9), we get a
direct-space expansion of IS),which is akin to (9.28) (see [107]). It
15We mentioned in Sec. 7.6 that the SDW effective field acts like a spin-dependent
hybridization amplitude mixing the k and (k+Q) states. The many-parameter SDW
state (10.57) allows the readjustment of the mixing amplitudes upon switching on
local correlations.