Effects of "stuffing" on the atomic and electronic structure of the pyrochlore Yb${}_2$Ti${}_2$O${}_7$

Soham S. Ghosh, Efstratios Manousakis

There are reasons to believe that the ground state of the magnetic rare earth pyrochlore Yb${}_2$Ti${}_2$O${}_7$ is on the boundary between competing ground states. We have carried out $…