Dissociation of high-pressure solid molecular hydrogen: a quantum Monte Carlo and anharmonic vibrational study

A theoretical study is reported of the molecular-to-atomic transition in solid hydrogen at high pressure. We use the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo method to calculate the static lattice energies of the competing phases and a density-functional-theory-based vibrational self-consistent field method to...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2014-04, Vol.112 (16), p.165501-165501, Article 165501
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