Study of electronic structure and Electric Field Gradient of Gd2O3 in cubic phase

In this work, the electronic properties of the cubic Gadolinium oxide were investigated using the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method in the density functional theory (DFT) framework. The calculations are performed within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA), adding an empirical Hubbard U potential. The behavior of the Electric Field Gradient was analyzed and compared with experimental data’s. Moreover, the total and partial densities of states of cubic Gd2O3 are presented and the contribution of different orbitals was analyzed from the total and the partial density of states curves. The calculations are in good agreement with the theoretical and experimental values.