Ab initio study of the composition dependence of the pressure-induced spin crossover in perovskite (Mg1 - x,Fex)SiO3

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 535-545

  Bengtson, Amelia ^a   Persson, Kristin ^b   Morgan, Dane ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

ab initio; iron; low spin; lower mantle; perovskite; spin transition

Indexed keywords

EARTH'S LOWER MANTLE; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATION; SPIN TRANSITION; TRANSITION PRESSURE;

ELASTIC MODULI; EQUATIONS OF STATE; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; IRON; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

PEROVSKITE;

EQUATION OF STATE; HIGH PRESSURE; LOWER MANTLE; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 38049054156     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.049     Document Type: Article

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