Ab initio strategy for muon site assignment in wide band gap fluorides

Abstract

We report on an ab initio strategy based on Density Functional Theory to identify the muon sites. Two issues must be carefully addressed, muon delocalization about candidate interstitial sites and local structural relaxation of the atomic positions due to ${\mu }^{+}$-sample interaction. Here, we report on the validation of our strategy on two wide band gap materials, LiF and YF3, where localization issues are important because of the interplay between muon localization and lattice relaxation

8 pages, 6 figures

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