Computational mineral physics and the physical properties of perovskite

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1800, 2002, Pages 2507-2520

  Brodholt, John P ^a   Oganov, A R ^a   Price, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ab initio; Alumina; Elastic constants; Lower mantle; Perovskite

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; OXIDE; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM;

ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELASTICITY; GEOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; SEDIMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); ELASTICITY; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDES; TITANIUM;

EID: 0037111624     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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