Study on Structure Phase Transition of Vanadium under High Pressure
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Abstract
We have studied the structure phase transition of Vanadium under high pressures by density function theory. A mechanical instability in the shear elastic constant (C44) has been found for bodycentred cubic(bcc) Vanadium at about 95 GPa, which indicates the existence of the structural transition. By calculation and analysis, we found that there was a bccrhombohedral structure transition at the 70 GPa, which is consistent with the experiment data. Our calculations also firstly gave that there was a rhombohedralbcc structure transition at about 380 GPa, which needs to be verified by the experiment.
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