Electronic structure of transition metals under pressure

Abstract

In this short review we have tried to demonstrate the advances made in the intensive study of the behavior of the electronic structure of metals under pressure in recent years. The alloys of transition metals, including intermetallic ordered compounds, have for the time being proved to lie outside the scope of this review, mainly because of the lack, in practice, of theoretical calculations in this area. Clearly, progress in this field is also being held up by the lack of detailed experimental investigations devoted to the behavior of alloys under pressure. This is due to the complexities involved in carrying out many traditional experimental procedures under high pressures. We should like to emphasize, however, that at the present time theoretical calculations have taken on a predictive power and this gives reason to hope that progress in calculations will in turn stimulate progress in experimentation.