Structural and electronic properties of solid molecular hydrogen from many-electron theories

Abstract

We study the structural and electronic properties of phase III of solid hydrogen using accurate many-electron theories and compare to state-of-the-art experimental findings. The atomic structures of phase III modelled by C2/c-24 crystals are fully optimized on the level of second-order perturbation theory, demonstrating that previously employed structures optimized on the level of approximate density functionals exhibit errors in the H${}_2$ bond lengths that cause significant discrepancies in the computed quasi particle band gaps and vibrational frequencies compared to experiment. Using the newly optimized atomic structures, we study the band gap closure and change in vibrational frequencies as a function of pressure. Our findings are in good agreement with recent experimental observations and may prove useful in resolving long-standing discrepancies between experimental estimates of metallization pressures possibly caused by disagreeing pressure calibrations.

MP2 forces' implementation and zero point renormalization on the bandgaps details are in supp.pdf

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