Structure maps for hcp metals from first-principles calculations
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Ohad Levy,1,2 Gus L. W. Hart,3 and Stefano Curtarolo1,4,* 1Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA 2Department of Physics, NRCN, P.O. Box 9001, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA 4Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Received 14 February 2010; published 10 May 2010
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