Abstract
A three body potential approach(Singh and Singh, Phys. Rev. B39,761(1989)) has been described and applied to investigate the pressure induced phase transformation from B1 (NaCl-Structure) to B2 (CsCl-Structure) phases for the partially ionic alkali-metal hydrides (LiH, NaH and KH). Our calculated values of the phase transition pressures and the associated volume collapses for NaH and KH are in reasonably good agreement with their experimental data. The variations of the relative volumes (V(P)/V(O)) with pressure for both B1 and B2 phases, have shown no phase transition upto 140 GPa in LiH. This feature is in agreement with the experimental observations.
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