Abstract
Upper bounds for the ground-state energies of liquid and solid phases of metallic hydrogen and metallic deuterium have been calculated with variational methods and Monte Carlo techniques. At four densities () crystalline phases are clearly preferred in the sense that the energy difference, when compared to the liquid, is in excess of the errors inherent in the numerical procedures. At a fifth density , the energy differences between solid and liquid phases are smaller than these errors.
- Received 18 May 1979
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.21.2641
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