Evidence for supercritical behaviour of high-pressure liquid hydrogen.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
09 2020
Historique:
received: 28 06 2019
accepted: 10 07 2020
entrez: 10 9 2020
pubmed: 11 9 2020
medline: 11 9 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Hydrogen, the simplest and most abundant element in the Universe, develops a remarkably complex behaviour upon compression

Identifiants

pubmed: 32908269
doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2677-y
pii: 10.1038/s41586-020-2677-y
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

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Pagination

217-220

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

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Auteurs

Bingqing Cheng (B)

Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. bc509@cam.ac.uk.
TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. bc509@cam.ac.uk.
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. bc509@cam.ac.uk.

Guglielmo Mazzola (G)

IBM Quantum, IBM Research - Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland.

Chris J Pickard (CJ)

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Michele Ceriotti (M)

Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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