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By employing first-principles metadynamics simulations, we explore the 300 K structures of solid hydrogen over the pressure range 150-300 GPa. At 200 GPa, we find the ambient-pressure disordered hexagonal close-packed (hcp) phase transited…
This paper is devoted to the study of induced topological pressure, including both classical and nonlinear cases. For the classical induced topological pressure, we investigate equilibrium states, subdifferential and freezing states, while…
We have determined the crystal structures and superconducting transition temperatures of La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4 under nearly hydrostatic pressures in diamond anvil cells to 5.0 GPa and 19.0 GPa, respectively. Synchrotron x-ray powder…
The physicochemical behavior of elements and compounds is heavily altered by high pressure. The occurrence of pressure-induced reactions and phase transitions can be revealed by crystal structure prediction approaches. In this work, we…
\textit{Ab initio} random structure searching based on density functional theory is used to determine the ground-state structures of ice at high pressures. Including estimates of lattice zero-point energies, ice is found to adopt three…
We have presented the structural, elastic, optoelectronic and transport properties of Sr3SnO under pressure by using first principles method. The application of hydrostatic pressure causes charge transfer from Sr(5s) orbital to Sn(5p) and…
Thermodynamic quantities of the hard-sphere system in the steady state with a small heat flux are calculated within the continuous media approach. Analytical expressions for pressure, internal energy, and entropy are found in the…
The structural properties of amorphous GeO$_2$, a prototypical network glass, were investigated under ambient to high pressure using reverse Monte Carlo simulations based on reported structure factors from in situ high-pressure neutron…
We report a room-temperature optical reflectivity study performed on [112]-oriented Cd$_3$As$_2$ single crystals over a broad energy range under external pressure up to 10 GPa. The abrupt drop of the band dispersion parameter…
The structural behavior of UO2 under high pressure up to 300GPa has been studied by first-principles calculations with LSDA+U approximation. The results show that a pressure-induced structural transition to the cotunnite-type (orthorhombic…
We have carried out a first principles study of the elastic properties and electronic structure for two room-temperature stable Pt silicide phases, tetragonal alpha-Pt_2Si and orthorhombic PtSi. We have calculated all of the equilibrium…
We study the high-pressure melting behavior of titanium using laser-driven shock compression with in situ femtosecond x-ray diffraction and molecular-dynamics simulations based on a machine-learned interatomic potential. The MD simulations…
By employing $ab$ $initio$ molecular dynamics simulations at constant pressure, we investigated behavior of amorphous carbon dioxide between 0-100 GPa and 200-500 K and found several new amorphous forms. We focused on evolution of the…
First-principles molecular dynamics is employed to describe the atomic structure of amorphous SiN, a non-stoichiometric compound belonging to the Si$_x$N$_{y}$ family. To produce the amorphous state via the cooling of the liquid, both the…
The equations of state at room temperature as well as the energies of crystal structures up to pressures exceeding 100 GPa are calculated for Na and K . It is shown that the allowance for generalized gradient corrections (GGA) in the…
Ab initio molecular dynamics simulation is used to investigate the structure and dynamics of liquid Se at temperatures of 870 and 1370~K. The calculated static structure factor is in excellent agreement with experimental data. The…
By means of synchrotron X-ray diffraction, we studied the effect of high pressure, P, up to 13 GPa on the room temperature crystal structure of superconducting CaC6. In this P range, no change of the pristine space group symmetry,…
Characteristic shock effects in silica serve as a key indicator of historical impacts at geological sites. Despite this geological significance, atomistic details of structural transformations under high pressure and shock compression…
First-principles calculations and analysis of the thermodynamic, structural, and electronic properties of liquid SiO$_2$ characterize the bonded-to-atomic transition at 0.1--1.6 TPa and 10$^4$--10$^5$ K (1--7 eV), the high-energy-density…
Understanding the covalent clathrate formation is a crucial point for the design of new superhard materials with intrinsic coupling of superhardness and metallic conductivity. Silicon clathrates have the archetype structures that can serve…