ALVARO RODRIGUEZ

Senior Researcher

Research Topic

Electronic properties of light alkali metals under high pressure. The simple behaviour alkaline metals present at normal conditions breaks when high pressures applied. One of the most important features telling about the pressure induced complexity in Li and other alkali metals is the drastic increase of its superconducting transition temperature, from 0.4 mK at equilibrium up to 14 K at P=30 GPa. I apply state of the art computational methods in order to understand the physical origin of this striking behaviour.

Last Check-in - Check-out date

01/11/2007 - 31/12/2007

Previous stays

2 (since 2003)