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Cover Picture: Evidence for Low‐Temperature Melting of Mercury owing to Relativity (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 29/2013)
Author(s) -
Calvo Florent,
Pahl Elke,
Wormit Michael,
Schwerdtfeger Peter
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201304862
Subject(s) - mercury (programming language) , theory of relativity , parallel tempering , physics , cover (algebra) , monte carlo method , theoretical physics , statistical physics , mathematics , computer science , hybrid monte carlo , engineering , markov chain monte carlo , statistics , programming language , mechanical engineering
The generalized theory of relativity gives a correct explanation of the residual motion of the perihelion of planet mercury. As F. Calvo, P. Schwerdtfeger, et al. show in their Communication on page 7583 ff. , the special theory of relativity has furnished an even more remarkable result. It gives the correct explanation as to why mercury is the only liquid metal at room temperature, as demonstrated by parallel‐tempering Monte Carlo simulations (Picture: Cameron Smorenburg).