Electronic and phonon instabilities in face-centered-cubic alkali metals under pressure studied using ab initio calculations
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Yu Xie,1 John S. Tse,2 Tian Cui,1 Artem R. Oganov,3 Zhi He,1 Yanming Ma,1,3,* and Guangtian Zou1 1National Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China 2Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N 5E2, Canada 3Laboratory of Crystallography, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, HCI G 515, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland Received 18 July 2006; revised manuscript received 28 November 2006; published 2 February 2007
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