First-principles calculation of positron annihilation characteristics at metal vacancies

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Korhonen, T
Puska, MJ
Nieminen, RM
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[1] Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology
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10.1103/PhysRevB.54.15016
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T [工业技术];
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Annihilation characteristics for positrons trapped at metal vacancies are calculated from first principles. The calculations are based on different implementations of the two-component density-functional theory, and different numerical methods to solve the ensuring Kohn-Sham equations have been employed. The convergence of the positron annihilation characteristics calculated within different schemes is discussed and the positron lifetimes obtained are compared with experiment.
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