ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10804001 and No.11074003), the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry, and the program for innovative research team in Anhui Normal University of China.
We have investigated properties of the compound LuAlO3:Ce^3+ associated with the Ce^3+ 4f-5d transition by using the periodic density functional theory. A hybrid functional has been used for the 4f states and a con...