Dynamical stability of body center cubic iron at the Earth's core conditions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 9962-9964

  Luo, Wei ^a,b   Johansson, Börje ^a,b   Eriksson, Olle ^a   Arapan, Sergiu ^a,b   Souvatzis, Petros ^a   Katsnelson, Mikhail I ^c   Ahuja, Rajeev ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ab initio; Anharmonic lattice dynamics; High pressure and high temperature; Inner core

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; DISPERSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHONON; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRATION;

EID: 77953427338     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004076107     Document Type: Article

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