title: Communication: Shock adiabat of atomic nitrogen at megabar pressures.
abstract: We use spherical cellular method combined with a self-consistent density functional approach (quasizone method) to calculate the band structure and bulk properties of atomic nitrogen at megabar pressures and densities 3.2÷3.6 g/cm(3). Thermodynamic functions and shock adiabat calculated by this method correspond to recent measurements, showing a sharp increase in pressure along the shock adiabat in this range of densities.
authors: Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS, Izhorskaya 13/19, Moscow, Russia. vrbv@mail.ru
authors: V S
authors: VS
authors: Vorob'ev
authors: A S
authors: AS
authors: Grushin
authors: V G
authors: VG
authors: Novikov