Total-energy calculations of solid H, Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs
- 15 December 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 42 (18) , 11637-11643
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.42.11637
Abstract
Augmented-plane-wave calculations within the local-density approximation of the total energy of the solid alkali metals H, Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs predict that except in Rb at T=0 K the fcc structure is more stable than the bcc, which agrees with experiments for Li and Na.Keywords
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