Band structure, Fermi surface, superconductivity, and resistivity of actinium under high pressure

The electronic band structures of fcc actinium (Ac) have been calculated for a wide range of pressures by reducing the unit-cell volume from 1.0V0 to 0.5V0 with use of the relativistic augmented-plane-wave method. The density of states and Fermi-surface cross sections corresponding to various volumes are obtained. Calculations for the band-structure-related quantities such as electron-phonon mass enhancement factor lambda, superconducting transition temperature T/sub c/, and resistivity rho corresponding to different volumes are performed. It is seen that T/sub c/ increases with pressure, i.e., with decreasing volume. A new empirical relation for the volume dependence of T/sub c/ is proposed and its validity is checked using the T/sub c/ values obtained from the above band-structure results. The resistivity rho first increases with increasing pressure (i.e., with decreasing volume) and then decreases for higher pressures (i.e., for smaller volumes)