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Investigation of expected location of muonium in normal state in III–V semiconductors and associated muon hyperfine interaction

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The location and hyperfine properties of muonium in AlP is investigated by the unrestricted Hartree-Fock cluster procedure. Two minima are found, one at the aluminium tetrahedral interstitial site, and the other at the corresponding phosphorus site. The former is deeper by 0.25 eV and separated from the other minimum by a steep maximum of 0.63 eV in the hexagonal region. Using the calculated electronic wave functions, the muon hyperfine constant, after vibrational averaging, comes out smaller than the value for free muonium, the ratio being 0.93. This value is, however, significantly higher than the experimental results in GaP and GaAs.

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  1. S. M. Mohapatra

    Present address: Magnetic Resonance Center, Oklahoma Teaching Hospitals, 73126, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

  2. N. Sahoo

    Present address: Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 10021, New York, NY, USA

  3. K. C. Mishra

    Present address: Electrical Products Division, GTE Sylvania, 01923, Danvers, MA, USA

  4. A. Catia & O. Donzelli

    Present address: Dipartimento di Fisica, Dell'Università di Ferrara, I-44100, Ferrara, Italy

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  1. Department of Physics, State University of New York at Albany, 12222, New York, USA

    S. M. Mohapatra, N. Sahoo, K. C. Mishra, Tina Briere, S. Swingle Nunes, F. Hagelberg, A. Catia, O. Donzelli & T. P. Das

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Briefly reported in Abstract at American Physical Society meeting in New Orleans, March 1988, see Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 33 (1988) 1364.

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Mohapatra, S.M., Sahoo, N., Mishra, K.C. et al. Investigation of expected location of muonium in normal state in III–V semiconductors and associated muon hyperfine interaction. Hyperfine Interact 79, 659–662 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00567592

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