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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 137, 期 18, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4765326
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- China 973 Program [2011CB808200]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11274136, 11025418, 91022029]
- Changjiang Scholar of Ministry of Education
- Changjiang Scholar and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT1132]
Simple cubic (SC) phase has been long experimentally determined as the high-pressure phase III of elemental calcium (Ca) since 1984. However, recent density functional calculations within semi-local approximation showed that this SC phase is structurally unstable by exhibiting severely imaginary phonons, and is energetically unstable with respect to a theoretical body-centered tetragonal I4(1)/amd structure over the pressure range of phase III. These calculations generated extensive debates on the validity of SC phase. Here we have re-examined the SC structure by performing more precise density functional calculations within hybrid functionals of Heyd-Scuseria-Erhzerhof and PBE0. Our calculations were able to rationalize fundamentally the phase stability of SC structure over all other known phases by evidence of its actual energetic stability above 33 GPa and its intrinsically dynamical stability without showing any imaginary phonons in the entire pressure range studied. We further established that the long-thought theoretical I4(1)/amd structure remains stable in a narrow pressure range before entering SC phase and is actually the structure of experimental Ca-III' synthesized recently at low temperature 14 K as supported by the excellent agreement between our simulated x-ray diffraction patterns and the experimental data. Our results shed strong light on the crucial role played by the precise electron exchange energy in a proper description of the potential energy of Ca. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4765326]
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