Fermi surface studies of the low-temperature structure of sodium

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. F. Elatresh ◽  
Mohammad Tomal Hossain ◽  
Tushar Bhowmick ◽  
A. D. Grockowiak ◽  
Weizhao Cai ◽  
...  
2003 ◽  
Vol 135-136 ◽  
pp. 577-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kato ◽  
K. Oshima ◽  
T. Kambe ◽  
Y. Nogami ◽  
T. Sasaki ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (21) ◽  
pp. 5389-5394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabri F. Elatresh ◽  
Weizhao Cai ◽  
N. W. Ashcroft ◽  
Roald Hoffmann ◽  
Shanti Deemyad ◽  
...  

The low-temperature crystal structure of elemental lithium, the prototypical simple metal, is a several-decades-old problem. At 1 atm pressure and 298 K, Li forms a body-centered cubic lattice, which is common to all alkali metals. However, a low-temperature phase transition was experimentally detected to a structure initially identified as having the 9R stacking. This structure, proposed by Overhauser in 1984, has been questioned repeatedly but has not been confirmed. Here we present a theoretical analysis of the Fermi surface of lithium in several relevant structures. We demonstrate that experimental measurements of the Fermi surface based on the de Haas–van Alphen effect can be used as a diagnostic method to investigate the low-temperature phase diagram of lithium. This approach may overcome the limitations of X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques and makes possible, in principle, the determination of the lithium low-temperature structure (and that of other metals) at both ambient and high pressure. The theoretical results are compared with existing low-temperature ambient pressure experimental data, which are shown to be inconsistent with a 9R phase for the low-temperature structure of lithium.


2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vikas Saini ◽  
Souvik Sasmal ◽  
Ruta Kulkarni ◽  
Bahadur Singh ◽  
A. Thamizhavel

1987 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Ketata ◽  
M. H. Ben Ghozlen ◽  
A. Daoud ◽  
I. Pabst

1982 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Moret ◽  
R. Comes ◽  
G. Furdin ◽  
H. Fuzellier ◽  
F. Rousseaux

ABSTRACTIn α-C5n-HNO3 the condensation of the room-temperature liquid-like diffuse ring associated with the disorder-order transition around 250 K is studied and the low-temperature. superstructure is examined.It is found that β-C8n-HNO3 exhibits an in-plane incommensurate order at room temperature.Two types of graphite-Br2 are found. Low-temperature phase transitions in C8Br are observed at T1 ≍ 277 K and T2 ≍ 297 K. The room-temperature structure of C14Br is reexamined. Special attention is given to diffuse scattering and incommensurability.


2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Frigan ◽  
Alejandro Santana ◽  
Michael Engel ◽  
Daniel Schopf ◽  
Hans-Rainer Trebin ◽  
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1984 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1463-1465 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. van Koningsveld ◽  
J. M. A. Baas ◽  
B. van de Graaf

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Caulfield ◽  
W. Lubczynski ◽  
J. Singleton ◽  
W. Hayes ◽  
M. Kurmoo ◽  
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