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$\mathrm{Ba}\mathrm{Ni}_{2}\mathrm{As}_{2}$, a structural-analogue to the iron-based parent compound $\mathrm{Ba}\mathrm{Fe}_{2}\mathrm{As}_{2}$, offers a unique platform to study the interplay between superconductivity, charge density…
High-pressure can transform the structures and compositions of materials either by changing the relative strengths of bonds or by altering the oxidation states of atoms. Both effects cause unconventional compositions in novel compounds that…
Ba2CaMoO6 was synthesized by solid state method. The crystal structure adopts cubic Fm-3m space group at room temperature with lattice parameters of 8.378231(5) {angstroms}. Upon cooling, Ba2CaMoO6 was determined to have a structural phase…
CaFe2As2 single crystals under uniaxial pressure applied along the c axis exhibit the coexistence of several structural phases at low temperatures. We show that the room-temperature tetragonal phase is stabilized at low temperatures for…
Alkali halides $MX$, have been viewed as typical ionic compounds, characterized by 1:1 ratio necessary for charge balance between M$^+$ and X$^-$. It was proposed that group I elements like Cs can be oxidized further under high pressure.…
We studied the effect of hydrostatic pressure (P) on the structural phase transitions and superconductivity in the ternary and pseudo-ternary iron arsenides CaFe2As2, BaFe2As2, and (Ba0.55K0.45)Fe2As2, by means of measurements of electrical…
Results of X-ray diffraction experiments on solid oxygen at low temperature and at pressures up to 10 GPa are presented.A careful sample preparation and annealing around 240 K allowed to obtain very good diffraction patterns in the…
We perform first principles calculations on CaFe2As2 under hydrostatic pressure. Our total energy calculations show that though the striped antiferromagnetic (AFM) orthorhombic (OR) phase is favored at P=0, a non-magnetic collapsed…
The high pressure structural properties of bismuth oxide Bi2SiO5 have been investigated up to 28 GPa using in situ powder synchrotron X-ray diffraction and up to 50 GPa with DFT calculations. The monoclinic structure is found to persist up…
Old and novel layered structures are attracting increasing attention for their physical, electronic, and frictional properties. SiS$_2$, isoelectronic to SiO$_2$, CO$_2$ and CS$_2$, is a material whose phases known experimentally up to 6…
An isolated calcium (Ca) atom has empty d-orbitals under ambient conditions. However, s-d band hybridization has been observed in both elemental Ca and compounds by manipulating thermodynamic conditions. Here, we reveal that the Ca 3d-band…
The crystal structure of the layered, perovskite-related LaTiO_3.41 (La_5Ti_5O_{17+\delta}) has been studied by synchrotron powder x-ray diffraction under hydrostatic pressure up to 27 GPa (T = 295 K). The ambient-pressure phase was found…
The Mg-Si-O system is the major Earth and rocky planet-forming system. Here, through quantum variable-composition evolutionary structure explorations, we have discovered several unexpected stable binary and ternary compounds in the Mg-Si-O…
A previously unknown thermodynamically stable high-pressure phase of BeF$_{2}$ has been predicted using the evolutionary algorithm USPEX. This phase occurs in the pressure range 18-27 GPa. Its structure has $C2/c$ space group symmetry and…
Studying the effect of high pressure (exceeding 10 kbar) on the structure of solids allows to gain deeper insight in the mechanism governing crystal structure stability. Here we report a study on the high-pressure behaviour of zinc…
We have performed first principles study for bismuth crystal structure at pressure from 0~14 GPa based on structure search and quasi-harmonic approximation. A new stable phase with Pbcm symmetry is predicted by structure search method. We…
High pressure behavior of potassium chlorate (KClO$_3$) has been investigated from 0-10 GPa by means of first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The calculated ground state parameters, transition pressure and phonon…
We present a theoretical study of solid carbon dioxide up to 50GPa and 1500K using first-principles calculations. In this pressure-temperature range, interpretations of recent experiments have suggested the existence of CO2 phases which are…
Sodium chloride (NaCl), or rocksalt, is well characterized at ambient pressure. Due to the large electronegativity difference between Na and Cl atoms, it has highly ionic chemical bonding, with stoichiometry 1:1 dictated by charge balance,…
Experimental progress finally reached the metallic solid hydrogen phase, which was predicted by Wigner and Huntington over 80 years ago. However, the different structures in the phase diagram are still been debated due to the difficulty of…