Zero-Temperature Structures of Atomic Metallic Hydrogen

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2010-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/1011.5028v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

9 pages; 4 figures

Scientific paper

Ab initio random structure searching with density functional theory was used to determine the zero-temperature structures of atomic metallic hydrogen from 500 GPa to 5 TPa. Including zero point motion in the harmonic approximation, we estimate that molecular hydrogen dissociates into a monatomic body-centered tetragonal structure near 500 GPa (r_s = 1.225), which then remains stable to 2.5 TPa (r_s = 0.969). At higher pressures, hydrogen stabilizes in an ...ABCABC... planar structure that is remarkably similar to the ground state of lithium, which compresses to the face-centered cubic lattice beyond 5 TPa (r_s < 0.86). At this level of theory, our results provide a complete ab initio description of the atomic metallic structures of hydrogen, resolving one of the most fundamental and long outstanding issues concerning the structures of the elements.

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