Abstract
We report a first principles calculation of pressure-induced structural phase transition properties of uranium chalcogenides (UX; X=S, Se and Te). The total energies as a function of volume are obtained by means of self-consistent tight binding linear muffin orbital method (TB-LMTO) by performing spin and non-spin polarized calculations to determine the magnetic and structural stabilities. From the present study, we predict a magnetic phase transition from ferromagnetic (FM) to non-magnetic (NM) state around 67.7 and 10.2 GPa for US and USe, respectively. The pressure-induced magnetic transitions are found second-order in nature. We have also predicted structural phase transition from FM-NaCl-type (B1phase) structure to NM-CsCl-type (B2phase) structure at around 77.5, 23.5 for US and USe, respectively, while UTe undergoes from FM-B1to FM-B2phase around 12.0 GPa.
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