Related papers: High-Pressure Amorphous Nitrogen
Simple cubic (sc) black phosphorus (denoted BP), stable at P>10GPa, seems an ordinary metal. It has electron-phonon-driven superconductivity with Tc 5-10 K. The A17 phase, stable at atmospheric pressure, has a narrow gap, becomes…
The insulator-metal transition in hydrogen is one of the most outstanding problems in condensed matter physics. The high-pressure metallic phase is now predicted to be liquid atomic from T=0 K to very high temperatures. We have conducted…
The structural properties of Thallium (III) oxide (Tl2O3) have been studied both experimentally and theoretically under compression at room temperature. X-ray powder diffraction measurements up to 37.7 GPa have been complemented with ab…
In this paper, we revisit the high-pressure behavior of BaZrO3 by a combination of first-principle calculations, Raman spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction under high pressure. We confirm experimentally the cubic-to-tetragonal transition at…
A recent experimental study of the metallization of hydrogen tracked the direct band gap and vibron frequency via infrared measurements up to ~425 GPa [P. Loubeyre et al., Nature 577, 631 (2020)]. Above this pressure, the direct gap has a…
The electrical conductivity and Raman spectroscopy measurements have been performed on MoS$_2$ at high pressures up to 90 GPa and variable temperatures down to 5 K. We find that the temperature dependence of the resistance in a metallic…
The structural, electronic, and spectroscopic properties of a high-pressure phase of methane hydrate (MH-III) are studied by first principles electronic structure calculations. A detailed analysis of the atomic positions suggests that {\it…
An order parameter with broken polarization symmetry is proposed for the pressure-induced molecular dissociation transitions in nitrogen. The experimental dissociative transition pressure dependence of the calculated order parameter is well…
We have extended the range of the high-pressure optical spectroscopy to the far-infrared region keeping the accuracy of ambient-pressure experiments. The newly-developed method offers a powerful tool for the study of pressure-induced phase…
Nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond have attracted broad attention as quantum sensors for both static and dynamic magnetic, electrical, strain and thermal fields, and are particularly attractive for quantum sensing under pressure in…
The isochoric thermal conductivity of solid nitrogen has been investigated on four samples of different densities in the temperature interval from 20 K to the onset of melting. In alfa-N2 the isochoric thermal conductivity exhibits a…
High-pressure powder x-ray diffraction experiments have revealed that sodium and gold react at room temperature and form new Na-Au intermetallic compounds under high pressure. We have identified four intermetallic phases up to 60 GPa. The…
We report the first experiments on the high pressure phonon spectra of transition-metal nitrides HfN, ZrN, and NbN, obtained by Raman scattering measurements. Two pronounced bands, which are related to the acoustic part at low frequency…
The realization of $p$-type doping in wide-band-gap oxide semiconductors remains a major challenge, particularly in $\beta-Ga_2O_3$ where nitrogen has long been considered a potential acceptor dopant but has consistently failed to produce…
We report results of MD simulations of amorphous ice in the pressure range 0 - 22.5 kbar. The high-density amorphous ice (HDA) prepared by compression of Ih ice at T = 80 K is annealed to T = 170 K at intermediate pressures in order to…
High pressure Raman experiments on Boron Nitride multi-walled nanotubes show that the intensity of the vibrational mode at ~ 1367 cm-1 vanishes at ~ 12 GPa and it does not recover under decompression. In comparison, the high pressure Raman…
\'Eliashberg theory, being generalized to the case of the electron-phonon (EP) systems with the not constant density of electronic states, as well as to the frequency behavior of the renormalization of both the electron mass and the…
As titanium is a highly utilized metal for structural light-weighting, its phases, transformation pathways (transition states), and structures have scientific and industrial importance. Impurities, pressure, and temperature control the…
We describe an inexpensive instructional experiment that demonstrates the rotational energy levels of diatomic nitrogen, using the emission band spectrum of molecular nitrogen ionized by various processes in a commercial AC capillary…
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center occurs in GaAs bulk crystals doped or implanted with nitrogen. The local vibration of nitrogen gives rise to a sharp infrared absorption band at 638 cm$^{-1}$, exhibiting a fine structure due to the…