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Phase Diagrams of the Elements by David A. Young

By David A. Young

The habit of reliable and liquid topic at excessive pressures and temperatures is better defined in a part diagram, which exhibits the areas of balance of other levels of the cloth. due to the diamond-anvil phone, which has made attainable a lot greater pressures, and to new and extremely actual theoretical versions and techniques, part Diagrams of the weather provides the main up to date details at the part habit of the entire chemical parts from hydrogen to fermium.The ebook summarizes, using tables and illustrations, the experimental information and the theoretical calculations. each one aspect is mentioned in a separate part. different chapters care for equipment, the liquid-vapor transition, and an outline of the weather. whereas comprehensively reviewing all that has been performed during this vital zone, the writer additionally issues to questions that want even more experimental and theoretical paintings.

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Gleiser, K. K. Kelley, and D. D. Wagman, Selected Values of the Thermodynamic Properties of the Elements (Am. Soc. Metals, Metals Park, Ohio, 1973). 36. G. R. Gathers, Rep. Prog. Phys. 49, 341 (1986). 37. S. V. Lebedev and A. I. Savvatimskii, Usp. Fiz. Nauk 144, 215 (1984) [Sov. Phys. Usp. 27, 749 (1984)]. 38. S. Fahy and S. G. Louie, Phys. Rev. B 36, 3373 (1987). 1 Introduction In order to make theoretical predictions of phase transitions we must first construct good theories of the free energies of the solid and liquid phases.

1 A typical metallic pair potential. Page 29 Although this theory has been elaborated only for d-electron metals, it may also be applied to f-electron metals such as the actinides. , Eqs. 3) with the pseudopotential W defined with respect to the nonbonding ionic core. A mixed basis set of plane waves and localized atomiclike d states is introduced and simultaneous expansions are then developed for n(r) and Etot in terms of small quantities. These quantities are plane-wave matrix elements of the pseudopotential, which pertain to the s and p electrons (as in the NFE theory), and plane-wave d and interatomic d-d matrix elements, which pertain to the d electrons.

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