Importance of correlation effects in hcp iron revealed by a pressure-induced electronic topological transition.

Importance of correlation effects in hcp iron revealed by a pressure - induced 1 electronic topological transition 2 3 4

Importance of Magnetism in Phase Stability, Equations of State, and Elasticity

— The effects of magnetism on high pressure properties of transition metals and transition metal compounds can be quite important. In the case of Fe, magnetism is responsible for stability of the body-centered cubic (bcc) phase at ambient conditions, and the large thermal expansivity in face-centered cubic (fcc) iron, and also has large effects on the equation of state and elasticity of hexagon...

Coexistence pressure for a martensitic transformation from theory and experiment: Revisiting the bcc-hcp transition of iron under pressure

The coexistence pressure of two phases is a well-defined point at fixed temperature. In experiment, however, due to nonhydrostatic stresses and a stress-dependent potential energy barrier, different measurements yield different ranges of pressure with a hysteresis. Accounting for these effects, we propose an inequality for comparison of the theoretical value to a plurality of measured intervals...

Electronic topological transition and noncollinear magnetism in compressed hcp Co

Recent experiments showed that Co undergoes a phase transition from the ferromagnetic hcp phase to the nonmagnetic fcc one around 100 GPa. Since the transition is of first order, a certain region of coexistence of the two phases is present. By means of ab initio calculations, we found that the hcp phase itself undergoes a series of electronic topological transitions (ETTs), which affects both e...

Nonadiabaticity in the iron bcc to hcp phase transformation.

Iron is known to undergo a pressure-induced phase transition from the ferromagnetic (FM) body-centered-cubic (bcc) alpha-phase to the nonmagnetic (NM) hexagonal-close-packed (hcp) epsilon-phase, with a large observed pressure hysteresis whose origin is still a matter of debate. Long ago, Burgers [Physica (Amsterdam) 1, 561 (1934)] proposed an adiabatic pathway for bcc to hcp transitions involvi...