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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
Zinc metal has been studied at high pressure using x-ray absorption spectroscopy. In order to investigate the role of the different degrees of hydrostaticity on the occurrence of structural anomalies following the electronic topological transition, two pressure transmitting media have been used. Results show that the electronic topological transition, if it exists, does not induce an anomaly in the local environment of compressed Zn as a function of hydrostatic pressure and any anomaly must be related to a loss of hydrostaticity of the pressure transmitting medium. The near-edge structures of the spectra, sensitive to variations in the electronic density of states above the Fermi level, do not show any evidence of electronic transition whatever pressure transmitting medium is used.
Publisher: 
American Physical Society
Publication date: 
3 Oct 2007
Authors: 

G Aquilanti, A Trapananti, M Minicucci, F Liscio, A Twaróg, E Principi, S Pascarelli

Biblio References: 
Volume: 76 Issue: 14 Pages: 144102
Origin: 
Physical Review B