Prediction of new phases of nitrogen at high pressure from first-principles simulations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Mattson, William D ^a,c   Sanchez Portal, Daniel ^b   Chiesa, Simone ^a   Martin, Richard M ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOCIATION; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SHOCK WAVES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COORDINATED ATOMS; ENERGY BARRIERS; METALLIC PHASES; METASTABILITY;

NITROGEN;

EID: 11144262931     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.125501     Document Type: Article

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