Cold melting and solid structures of dense lithium

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-214

  Guillaume, Christophe L ^a   Gregoryanz, Eugene ^a   Degtyareva, Olga ^a   McMahon, Malcolm I ^a   Hanfland, Michael ^b   Evans, Shaun ^b   Guthrie, Malcolm ^c   Sinogeikin, Stanislav V ^d   Mao, H K ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELTING POINT; PHASE DIAGRAMS; QUANTUM THEORY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

HIGH-PRESSURE DIFFRACTION; HIGH-PRESSURE SOLIDS; MELTING CURVES; METAL-TO-SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSITION; QUANTUM EFFECTS; SOLID STRUCTURES; WIDE TEMPERATURE RANGES; ZERO-POINT ENERGIES;

HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79952440022     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1864     Document Type: Article

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