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This PhD thesis conducts a focused study of strongly correlated materials with localized electron orbitals. We have studied two real materials (LuNiO$_3$ and VO$_2$) and one model system, i.e., the Anderson impurity model. The thesis is…
We have examined a method of direct extraction of accurate tight-binding parameters from an ab-initio band-structure calculation. The linear muffin-tin potential method, in its full-potential implementation, has been used to provide the…
The bonding properties of tilt boundary in poly-silicon and the effect of interstitial impurities are investigated by first-principles. In order to obtain thorough information on the nature of chemical bondings in these solid systems, an…
We show that the optical and electronic properties of nanocrystalline silicon can be efficiently tuned using impurity doping. In particular, we give evidence, by means of ab-initio calculations, that by properly controlling the doping with…
We have used a full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital method to calculate the effects of oxygen impurities on the electronic structure of NiAl. Using the supercell method with a 16-atom supercell we have investigated the cases where an…
Non-Fermi-liquid (NFL) behavior in the f-sublattice-diluted alloy system U_{1-x}Th_xPd_2Al_3 has been studied using ^{27}Al nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Impurity satellites due to specific U near-neighbor configurations to ^{27}Al…
The electronic and magnetic properties of a neutral substitutional nickel (Ni$_s^0$) impurity in diamond are studied using density functional theory in the generalized gradient approximation. The spin-one ground state consists of two…
We present a systematic ab initio study based on density-functional calculations to understand impurity effects in iron-based superconductors. Effective tight-binding Hamiltonians for the d-bands of LaFeAsO with various transition-metal…
Density functional theory was applied to study influence of the isolated impurity located on the regular site of the alpha-Fe crystal on the charge and spin density (hyperfine interactions) on the iron nucleus. Calculations were performed…
We performed first-principle calculations based on the supercell and cluster approaches to investigate the neutral Al impurity in smoky quartz. Electron paramagnetic resonance measurements suggest that the oxygens around the Al center…
We examine the influence of Ni impurity in cuprates on the distribution of hole carriers by performing numerically exact diagonalization calculations for a model consisting of Cu3d, Ni3d, and O2p orbitals. Using realistic parameters for the…
We report the results of an ab initio modeling of substitutional impurities such as zinc, copper and zirconium ions incorporated into the magnesium sublattice of MgB2. The goal of computational studies was to gain an atomistic understanding…
Density functional calculations are performed to study the magnetic order of the severely distorted square planar cupric oxide (CuO) and local spin disorder in it in the presence of the transition metal impurities M (= Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and…
The accumulation of boron within the porous nickel ferrite (NiFe2O4, NFO) deposited on fuel rods is a major technological problem with important safety and economical implications. In this work the electronic structure of nickel ferrite is…
We theoretically consider the effects of having unintentional charged impurities in laterally coupled two-dimensional double (GaAs) quantum dot systems, where each dot contains one or two electrons and a single charged impurity in the…
Nb-substituting Fe impurity in KNbO3 is studied in first-principles supercell calculations by the linear muffin-tin orbital method. Possible ways to account for the impurity charge compensation are discussed. Calculations are done in the…
Two possible physical mechanisms of superconductivity suppression at superconductor/antiferromagnet (S/AF) interfaces, which work even for interfaces with compensated antiferromagnets, were reported. One of them suggests that the Neel order…
We characterise the influence of the segregation behaviours of two typical alloying elements, aluminium and nickel, on the interfacial cohesive properties of copper-rich precipitates in ferritic steels, with a view towards understanding…
The A-site spinel material, CoAl2O4, is a physical realization of the frustrated diamond-lattice antiferromagnet, a model in which is predicted to contain unique incommensurate or `spin-spiral liquid' ground states. Our previous…
We study a magnetic impurity embedded in a correlated electron system using the density-matrix renormalization group method. The correlated electron system is described by the one-dimensional Hubbard model. At half filling, we confirm that…