Abstract
The study of the oxygen vacancy ( center) in MgO has been aggravated by the fact that the positively charged and the neutral vacancy ( and , respectively) absorb at practically identical energies. Here we apply many-body perturbation theory in the approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter approach to calculate the optical absorption and emission spectrum of the oxygen vacancy in all three charge states. We observe unprecedented agreement between the calculated and the experimental optical absorption spectra for the and center. Our calculations reveal that not only the absorption but also the emission spectra of different charge states peak at nearly the same energy, which leads to a reinterpretation of the center’s optical properties.
- Received 18 November 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.126404
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Published by the American Physical Society