Abstract
A systematic method to unravel a large class of single-bonded (SB) polymeric phases of nitrogen under high pressure is presented. The approach is based on the combinatorial generation of different Peierls-like distortions of a given reference structure that maintain the threefold connectivity of SB nitrogen, followed by first-principles calculations. Using an eight atom simple cubic reference structure, the approach not only recovers all four SB nitrogen phases reported to date, but eight new metastable structures (confirmed by phonon density of states calculations) are found. Basic properties of the structures are computed and the trends analyzed. Extensions to the method are straightforward and should lead to the discovery of more phases of polynitrogen.
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