Electronic Structure of Muonated La2CuO4
We have performed First Principle computational studies utilizing Molecular-Orbital (MO) Cluster method to examine the electronic structure of muonated La2CuO4. Based on recent works, we investigated three suggested muon sites in La2CuO4. Two possible muon sites are located near the apical oxygen O(a), and the other one is near the planar oxygen O(p). The calculations were performed at the HF/Gen level of theory. The results of our investigation show that there is a very significant covalency effect between copper and oxygen. In the pure system, the effective charge on Cu is 0.77 while the charge on the oxygens is around –1.8. In the muonated system, the charge on Cu reduces to 0.58. The spin density at Cu is 0.78 in the pure system and becomes 0.70 when muon is added. As for the muon, the charge and spin density are +0.22 and –0.0026 respectively.