Journal Article

Structure, Bonding, and Geochemistry of Xenon at High Pressures

Although xenon becomes metallic at pressures above about 100 gigapascals, a combination of quantum mechanical calculations and high pressure–temperature experiments reveals no …

Wendel Caldwell

Relaxation of Crystals with the Quasi-Newton Method

A quasi-Newton method is used to simultaneously relax the internal coordinates and lattice parameters of crystals under pressure.

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Bernd Pfrommer

Possibility of Li-Mg and Al-Mg hydrides being metallic

Within the framework of the local-density approximation and the ab initio pseudopotential theory, it is shown that alloying of MgH2 with Li or Al may be described in terms of the …

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Bernd Pfrommer