Superconducting high-pressure phase of cesium iodide

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作者
Xu, Ying [1 ]
Tse, John S. [1 ,2 ]
Oganov, Artem R. [3 ,4 ]
Cui, Tian [1 ]
Wang, Hui [1 ]
Ma, Yanming [1 ]
Zou, Guangtian [1 ]
机构
[1] Jilin Univ, Natl Lab Superhard Mat, Changchun 130012, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Saskatchewan, Dept Phys & Engn Phys, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada
[3] ETH, Dept Mat, Crystallog Lab, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[4] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Dept Geol, Moscow 119992, Russia
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
caesium compounds; crystal structure; crystallography; energy gap; high-pressure effects; superconducting materials; EQUATION-OF-STATE; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE PREDICTION; AUGMENTED-WAVE METHOD; X-RAY-DIFFRACTION; CSI; METALLIZATION; TRANSITION; GIGAPASCALS; GAP; GPA;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.144110
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
The evolutionary methodology for crystal structure prediction is employed to resolve a long-held puzzle in the high-pressure crystallography of cesium iodide. Above 42 GPa, an orthorhombic Pnma structure with a hexagonal-closed-packed (hcp) stacking which resembles hcp Xe is uncovered to be stable and successfully explains the observed diffraction patterns. At strong compression (>100 GPa), this structure becomes metallic via band-gap closure, and superconducting originated from the peculiar reverse electron donation from I- to Cs+.
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