Pressure-induced stabilization and insulator-superconductor transition of BH

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Hu, Chao Hao ^a,b   Oganov, Artem R ^b,c   Zhu, Qiang ^b   Qian, Guang Rui ^b   Frapper, Gilles ^d   Lyakhov, Andriy O ^b   Zhou, Huai Ying ^a  

^a GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON PHONON COUPLINGS; EVOLUTIONARY SIMULATIONS; HIGH ENERGY DENSITY MATERIALS; INSULATOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR; PHONON-MEDIATED SUPERCONDUCTOR; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE; TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS;

CALCULATIONS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 84876702416     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.165504     Document Type: Article

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