Why is polonium simple cubic and so highly anisotropic?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Legut, Dominik ^a,b   Friák, Martin ^a   Šob, Mojmír ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF MATERIALS   (Czech Republic)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

RELATIVISTIC MASS-VELOCITY; TRIGONAL STRUCTURES;

POLONIUM;

EID: 34547250151     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.016402     Document Type: Article

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