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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.245501
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Energy Frontier Research Centers [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
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We show how pressure fundamentally alters the repulsive nature of the nonreactive Li-Cs mixture, converting it from strongly phase separating at ambient pressure to strongly long-range ordering at high pressures. The ordered phases found via a global space group optimization within the density-functional theory are Li7Cs in the Cmmm structure, LiCs in the B2 structure, and Li7Cs in the C-2/m structure. These structures are remarkably stabilized by a pressure-induced increase in charge transfer from Cs to Li unit, an unusual effect concerning two elements from the same group (isovalent). These high-pressure phases exhibit interesting behaviors: (i) LiCs (B2) has its Cs(5p) core states nearly merged with the valence Cs(6s) states, indicating that core states can become valence states at high pressures; (ii) Li7Cs (Cmmm) structure exhibits an interesting 1D electronic structure within a 3D crystal structure.
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