Novel phase of beryllium fluoride at high pressure

Autor: Rakitin, Maksim S., Oganov, Artem R., Niu, Haiyang, Esfahani, M. Mahdi Davari, Zhou, Xiang-Feng, Qian, Guang-Rui, Solozhenko, Vladimir L.
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17 [39] 26283-26288 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP04010H
Popis: A previously unknown thermodynamically stable high-pressure phase of BeF$_{2}$ has been predicted using the evolutionary algorithm USPEX. This phase occurs in the pressure range 18-27 GPa. Its structure has $C2/c$ space group symmetry and contains 18 atoms in the primitive unit cell. Given the analogy between BeF$_{2}$ and SiO$_{2}$, silica phases have been investigated as well, but the new phase has not been observed to be thermodynamically stable for this system. However, it is found to be metastable and to have comparable energy to the known metastable phases of SiO$_{2}$, suggesting a possibility of its synthesis.
Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures
Databáze: arXiv