Table 1 Calculated critical pressures of vanadium at zero Kelvin, in which Pi denotes the lower bound of the metastable pressure, Pc is the thermodynamically equilibrium transition pressure and Pm is the pressure where RH2 phase attains the greatest stability, respectively.

From: Stability of rhombohedral phases in vanadium at high-pressure and high-temperature: first-principles investigations

Critical pressure

Method I (GPa)

Method II (GPa)

Lee et al.13 (GPa)

Qiu et al.16 (GPa)

Verma et al.15 (GPa)

Pi of RH1

50

73

19

Pc of BCC → RH1

98

103

84

32

60

Pi of RH2

110

103–112

65

Pc of RH1 → RH2

128

126

119

115

160

Pm of RH2

210

211

187

Pc of RH2 → BCC

284

278

280

297

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