Theoretical investigations of EPR g factors for Ce3+ ion at monoclinic Cs site in YAlO3 crystal

Three EPR principal g values (gx, gy and gz) for monoclinic (Cs) Ce3+ center in YAlO3 crystal are calculated by the complete diagonalization (of energy matrix) method (CDM) based on the superposition model (SPM) analysis. The calculated g factors are more reasonably closer to experimental results reported by Asatryan et al. (2002) than their same work in 1997. The reliability of fitted crystal-field parameters of YAP:Ce3+ crystal is also analyzed. In SPM calculations, the seeming abnormal negative power-law exponent t6 is found to be actually reasonable and its underlying cause may be explained by future ab initio studies.