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Structural properties of NaCl and KCl under pressure

S Froyen and M L Cohen

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The pseudopotential method within the local-density approximation is used to investigate the static and structural properties of NaCl and KCl. Calculated values for the lattice constants and bulk moduli are in good agreement with experiment. The pressure phase transformation to the CsCl structure is studied, and the role of the C44 shear instability as a possible transformation path is investigated and dismissed. The tetragonal distortion of the CsCl phase, which has been found in other alkali halides at high pressures, appears not to exist in KCl. Finally the authors have calculated the electronic energy levels at symmetry points in the Brillouin zone as a function of volume.


PACS

71.20.Ps Other inorganic compounds

71.15.Mb Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections

62.20.D- Elasticity

71.15.Dx Computational methodology (Brillouin zone sampling, iterative diagonalization, pseudopotential construction)

64.60.-i General studies of phase transitions

81.40.Jj Elasticity and anelasticity, stress-strain relations

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 15 (30 May 1986)



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