First-principles study of the temperature-pressure phase diagram of BaTiO3

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Íñiguez, Jorge ^a   Vanderbilt, David ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONIANS; IONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

RHOMBOHEDRAL PHASE; ZERO POINT MOTION;

BARIUM TITANATE;

EID: 0037048396     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.115503     Document Type: Article

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