Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1863475 Physics Letters A 2007 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
After a successful application of a local first principles pseudopotential to the study of the structural pressure-induced phase transition for magnesium, I now use the same local first principles type of pseudopotential, to study the specific heat as function of the pressure, at 300 K, in the region around the predicted phase transitions. I found that the specific presents two discontinuities, one for each transition of phase. These discontinuities are associated to the existence of latent heat at each transition, which has not been yet reported experimentally.
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