Prediction of a hexagonal SiO2 phase affecting stabilities of MgSiO3and CaSiO3at multimegabar pressures

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

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1252-1255

  Tsuchiya, Taku ^a   Tsuchiya, Jun ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ab initio density functional simulation; Multimegabar crystalline phase; Silicon dioxide; Super earth mantle

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXIDE; CALCIUM SILICATE; MAGNESIUM SILICATE; PEROVSKITE; SILICON DIOXIDE; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; MAGNESIUM DERIVATIVE; SILICATE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; SILICATES; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79952126784     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013594108     Document Type: Article

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