Most metallic elements have a crystal structure that is either body-centered cubic (bcc), face-
centered close packed, or hexagonal close packed. If the bcc lattice is the …

Although the highest superconducting critical temperature, T c, found in an elemental solid
at ambient pressure is 9.2 K (niobium), under the application of ultra-high pressures, several …

We introduce a technique based on the spatial localization of electron and phonon Wannier
functions to perform first-principles calculations of the electron-phonon interaction with an …

The concept of a charge density wave (CDW), which is induced by Fermi-surface nesting,
originated from the Peierls idea of electronic instabilities in purely one-dimensional metals …

Recent theoretical and experimental studies have produced several unusual and interesting
results on dense lithium, the first metal in the periodic table. These include the deviation from …

Superconductivity in the recently proposed ground-state structures of atomic metallic
hydrogen is calculated over the pressure range 500 GPa to 3.5 TPa. Near molecular …

We show that the electron-phonon coupling (EPC) in many materials can be significantly
underestimated by the standard density-functional theory (DFT) in the local-density …

From first-principles calculations, a high-pressure metallic phase of Sn H 4 with a novel
layered structure intercalated by “H 2” units is revealed. This structure is stable at pressure …

The multiple scattering-based theory of Gaspari and Gyorffy for the electron-ion matrix
element in close packed metals is applied to I m 3¯ m H 3 S, which has been predicted by …

It is challenging to search for high T c superconductivity (SC) in transition metal elements
wherein d electrons are usually not favored by conventional BCS theory. Here we report …