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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 16(106)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.165302

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Ground-State Structures of Atomic Metallic Hydrogen

Journal article published in 2011 by Jeffrey M. McMahon, David M. Ceperley ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Ab initio random structure searching using density functional theory is used to determine the ground-state structures of atomic metallic hydrogen from 500 GPa to 5 TPa. Including proton zero-point motion within the harmonic approximation, we estimate that molecular hydrogen dissociates into a monatomic body-centered tetragonal structure near 500 GPa (r(s)=1.23) that remains stable to 1 TPa (r(s)=1.11). At higher pressures, hydrogen stabilizes in an …ABCABC… planar structure that is similar to the ground state of lithium, but with a different stacking sequence. With increasing pressure, this structure compresses to the face-centered cubic lattice near 3.5 TPa (r(s)=0.92).