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Structures of calcium peroxide (CaO2) are investigated in the pressure range 0-200 GPa using the ab initio random structure searching (AIRSS) method and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. At 0 GPa, there are several CaO2…
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We develop a series of approximations to calculate free energy of a polar liquid. We show that long range nature of dipole interactions between the molecules leads to para-electric state instability at low temperatures and to a second-order…
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Photoinduced non-thermal phase transitions are new paradigms of exotic non-equilibrium physics of strongly correlated materials. An ultrashort optical pulse can drive the system to a new order through complex microscopic interactions that…
We recently proposed a high-pressure and high-temperature P-62m-symmetry polymorph for CaF2 on the basis of ab-initio random structure searching and density-functional theory calculations [Phys. Rev. B 95, 054118 (2017)]. We revisit this…