3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Hydrogen-rich hydrate at high pressures up to 104 GPa
Alexander F. Goncharov, Elena Bykova, Iskander Batyrev +10
Gas hydrates are considered fundamental building blocks of giant icy planets like Neptune and similar exoplanets. The existence of these materials in the interiors of giant icy pla…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Goldstone-mediated polar instability in hexagonal barium titanate
S. Simpson, U. Dey, R. J. Sjökvist +5
We discover a rare structural manifestation of the Goldstone paradigm in a hexagonal polytype of the archetypal ferroelectric BaTiO3. First-principles calculations confirm the Gold…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Polymorphism of monatomic iodine
Alexander F. Goncharov, Huawei Chen, Iskander G. Batyrev +8
We applied synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction in a diamond anvil cell at 48-51 GPa and first-principles theoretical calculations to study the crystal structure of solid a…