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Exotic high pressure behavior of light alkali metals, lithium and sodium

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At ambient conditions, lithium and sodium behave as free-electron metals and adopt highly symmetric close-packed structures. Under high pressure, however, these simple metals undergo a series of complex phase transitions to structures of lower symmetry, along with significant changes of their physical properties. In this review we provide a comprehensive description of these light alkali metals, with a focus on the structural and electronic properties under pressure.

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  1. Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal 4, 20018, Donostia, Basque Country, Spain

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  2. Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM) CSIC-UPV/EHU, 1072 Posta kutxatila, 20080, Donostia, Basque Country, Spain

    B. Rousseau & A. Bergara

  3. State Key Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P.R. China

    Y. Xie & Y. Ma

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Rousseau, B., Xie, Y., Ma, Y. et al. Exotic high pressure behavior of light alkali metals, lithium and sodium. Eur. Phys. J. B 81, 1–14 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2011-10972-9

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